[Talk-GB] Somerset Levels Flooding

[Andy Allan]

On 6 February 2014 09:43, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> 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.

I work on the principle of marking the "permanent state" of features,
as much as possible. Obviously everything changes, but if a situation
is deliberately temporary (e.g. a road closed for crane operations, or
for a fortnight for digging, etc) then I don't change the 'permanent
state' of the feature. We had a trunk road in Putney that was one-way
for three months, but I didn't change the map to correspond since it
was clearly not permanent. And I'd encourage people not to mark
flooding as natural=water, or removing bits of railway when they are
certainly going to repair it, or even adding "access=no" tags to
something that might be fixed by the weekend.

If it's deemed important by people to mark the "temporary state"
somehow, then please use a separate tagging system.

Cheers,
Andy