[Tagging] Open of discussion on "operational_status" (part of life cycle with disused/abandoned/demolished)

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 5:07 AM, fly <lowflight66 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Exactly, what you do describe won't work. Please use a prefix if
> something is broken. Software which wants to display these kind of
> broken objects can look for this prefix and all other simply ignore it.


This tag is for the opposite use case.
This tag is for objects which are intended to remain mapped.
Examples:

   - Hospital, windows blown out due to hurricane, observed to be closed 1
   day later.
   - Drinking fountain, drain clogged with sand (needs repair, but still
   works.)
   - Gate, observed to be sticky (but you can walk around it 100 feet
   north).

A specific use case is in drinking fountains where certain rendering
software processes additional tags to alert operating agencies about a
problem, but all other rendering agents continue to function normally.
 Most maps just show the drinking fountain.  The enhanced maps show the
last reported status of the drinking fountain (working, needs repair and
why, broken and why).

The disused: namespace prefix is fine for a different use case... if you
want the object to be invisible to most processing agents.
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