[talk-au] "Bad" directions on Outback roads

[Dian Ågesson]

A further thought,

Tagging permissions that open the road in certain times, rather than 
close them, could also lead to better outcomes with less sophisticated 
routing software/offline connections.

access=no

access:conditional=yes @ (May-Nov)

access:conditional= discouraged @ (Dec-Apr and dry)

Dian

On 2022-02-10 01:28, Dian Ågesson wrote:

> Hey Brendan, Graeme
> 
> If we wanted to alleviate the explicitly conditional problem, you could 
> combine the following:
> 
> vehicle:conditional=discouraged @ (Dec-Apr "Impassable during wet 
> season")
> 
> vehicle:conditional=no @ (Dec-Apr and wet)
> 
> By leaving it discouraged without further info gives wiggle room for 
> legal access when the road is passable.
> 
> Dian
> 
> On 2022-02-10 01:05, Brendan Barnes wrote:
> 
> Thanks Graeme, I'll just tweak your brackets a little to be a valid 
> tag:
> 
> vehicle:conditional=no @ (Dec-Apr "Road is generally impassable during 
> the wet season - seek local knowledge")
> 
> My only feedback would be an explicit conditional=no should only be 
> used if there's signage or other evidence to support no general public 
> access for those months each year.
> 
> If there's consensus seasonal roads should be tagged as such, I'm happy 
> to write something up in the Australian tagging guidelines.
> 
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 09:52, Graeme Fitzpatrick 
> <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 at 08:25, <stev391 at email.com> wrote:
> 
> The challenge with specifying months is the "wet"/"dry" season is it is 
> not always fixed.
> 
> True, but if we modify Brendan's suggestion a bit to:
> 
> vehicle:conditional=no @ Dec-Apr ("Road is generally impassable during 
> the wet season - seek local knowledge")
> 
> that "should" (?) stop routers from going along it, but when you stop 
> at the servo & ask if the road to Burketown is open, they'll be able to 
> say yes / no.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Graeme

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