[talk-au] school zones

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 23/6/09, b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au <b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au> wrote:
> Ha ha, I used to go to Epping Boys and
> would do the daily game of Frogger across 6 lanes, good fun!
> :p

It's always fun and games till someone looses an eye :)

> Anyway, usefulness of school zones aside I'm thinking
> that specifying 2 time ranges in one tag is simpler than
> specifying 2 tags, so:
> 
> restriction=school_zone
> school_zone_on=8:30-9:30;2:30-4:30 (or whatever they are)
> school_zone_maxspeed=40

This is close to what I started out with, although I used 24 hour time for programs to more easily deal with, but yea this looks workable too.

> As far as holidays go it would be good to be able to
> specify some form of "universal" tag, say based on
> a bounding box around each state, that gets updated once a
> year with the school term days. It would end up being one
> hell of a tag though. It's just that since the data only
> needs updating yearly (and is often published years in
> advance) it might be a workable solution.

There is already a multipolygon for the states, you could stuff the data into the relations that already exists.