[Talk-GB] Somerset Levels Flooding

[David Earl]

I think it would be useful to have a means of indicating road closures etc which are different from simply pretending the road doesn't exist or doesn't allow certain users for a while. This would allow renderers to mark closures rather than just gaps or not visible at all, so people see there is a problem; so that user types can be indicated (sometimes bikes can get through a closure, but not cars, or cars but not trucks); and so that (perhaps estimated) end dates can be given so that the restriction can be ignored when the closure didn't get removed - they are easily forgotten. Routers too could say 'I would have taken you this way, but it is closed when you want to travel' I was surprised someone hasn't already removed a section of railway at Dawlish yesterday! But it would be much better IMO if the railway remained, but marked as closed so the map could show, eg, a big red X at that point to illustrate an anomaly, rather than a short gap not really visible at all but the largest scales,  David    



Hi -



I do add temporary things such as road closures, construction sites.

Generally only if it will be there "for a while", e.g. a month or

more. I agree with Brian's perspective.



Dan





2014-02-06 Brian Savidge <a_snail at hotmail.com>:

> I thought temporary information like closures of paths and roads were good

> to put on the map, if nothing else to allow routing to avoid them.

>

> The water I agree is likely to be a bit inaccurate and isn't going to help

> with the routing, but like a road, those areas will be wet for quite some

> time (weeks to months), so as long as the person doing it keeps it

> relatively up to date, I guess there is no real problem.  The real problem

> comes when its not maintained.

>

>> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 00:24:31 +0000

>> From: davefox at madasafish.com

>> To: talk-GB at openstreetmap.org

>> Subject: [Talk-GB] Somerset Levels Flooding

>

>>

>> Hi

>>

>> About a week ago user Jestr88 added large areas tagged natural=water;

>> name=flooding. to indicate the flooded areas on the Somerset levels.

>>

>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/258412163

>>

>> Apart from the inaccuracy of these (water levels vary hourly) I thought

>> temporary information was frowned upon. I think they should be removed

>> or am I missing something?

>>

>> Dave F.

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