[Tagging] Emergency shelters

[Andrew Hain]

Is there a case for a general mapping scheme for information that ceases to be valid on a date and could be automatically removed afterwards?

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Andrew
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From: Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com>
Sent: 08 September 2017 04:12:35
To: tagging at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Tagging] Emergency shelters

Eric wrote   "Why would you delete data that is still valid and useful?"


My concern is that if these are permanent features, then people will say "ooh - they'll be the same as last time" and of course they probably won't be the same as last time and we may route people to a wrong place, with possible tragic results.

I agree that this information should be left in place, but marked , unusable, until specifically activated by authorities, which I agree should be well ahead of time, so long as people know that they will not be usable until a state of emergency is declared.

Activation should be on a center by centre basis so that authorities will be more likely to ensure the list of centers is accurate and up-to-date.

I also think that this information should NOT be edited, in any way by anyone other than the authorities. This brings back the old arguments about read only data in OSM.
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