[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - trafficability

[Gerald Weber]

> A tag called traffic_issue which would take free text as value (similar to
>> note)
>>
>> traffic_issue='Road maintained by local 4WD club, passes over sandy inlet
>> that floods at high tide, four inch rocks placed by club restrict access to
>> high clearance vehicles'
>> [..]
>>
>> and of course something for the renderers/routers:
>> traffic_issue:severity=none|minor|major|danger|info|block
>>
>
> I was going to jump at your throat for suggesting a free-text comment
> attribute... But using it only as a complement to values from an
> appropriately designed list would make sense. Then remains the issue of
> what that list of values should be - and doesn't that bring us back to
> square one ?
>

I'm sorry, but I don't understand. Why is the problem in passing along a
few words of helpful and perhaps life-saving advice in free-text?
Especially considering that it may not be possible to convey the exact
meaning by a list of pre-established tag-values?
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