[Tagging] [OSM-talk] make water sources more usable by marking disused ones with lifecycle prefix, rather than extra tags like operational_status = out_of_order

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 12, 2025, 15:39 by elgaard at agol.dk:

> Martin Koppenhoefer:
>
>> Am Fr., 11. Apr. 2025 um 20:49 Uhr schrieb Niels Elgaard Larsen <elgaard at agol.dk <mailto:elgaard at agol.dk>>:
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>>  I have added and updated many water_point s.
>>  Sometimes they do not work.
>>  But what if is just temporarily?
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>> then someone who sees it working can switch it back to active.
>>
>
> Most likely nobody will see it because who searches for disabled PIO's?
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> And I and many other mostly use OSM offline with e.g., OsmAnd.
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> So if a water point is out of service for a week before someone fix it, then it might take a month before I can find it with OsmAnd.
>
I definitely agree that either way of marking as not working should not be applied
for short-term closures
Though in this case edit would exchange one tagging schema for another, for objects which
almost all were not edited for a long time
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> That is the reason that the wiki says not to use the construction to tag such short-term closures of ways.
>
+1

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