[Tagging] It seems that opening_hours:covid19=* tag is a bad idea, right?

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 9:51 AM Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <
tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> At this point it seems clear that COVID19 is not going to disappear soon
> (if ever)
> and changed opening hours should be tagged in opening_hours.
>
> I think that it would be useful to stop using opening_hours:covid19=same,
> opening_hours:covid19=off, opening_hours:covid19=Mo,We 08:00-12:00 etc
> and just tag this info in opening_hours
>
> I propose to modify iD presets to stop encouraging use of that tag
> ( https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues/401
> <https://github.com/openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema/issues/401> )
> and to modify
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours:covid19
> to make clear that this tagging is a poor idea (even if it made sense
> initially).
>

I'm onboard with this, though I question if it even made sense initially.
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