[Talk-GB] Somerset Levels Flooding

[Brian Savidge]

How about having the    Key:  access    and    Value:  no
or possibly Value: delivery or customers if its roads.  If you wanted it to showup on the map as red, setting the Value to 'private' as in keep out its a building site would work.

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 09:43:55 +0000
From: david at frankieandshadow.com
To: danstowell+osm at gmail.com
CC: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Somerset Levels Flooding

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

On 6 February 2014 08:40:22 GMT, Dan S  wrote:
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 :
> 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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