[Talk-us] Marking closed bridges

[Jeff Barlow]

Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com>  wrote:

> There are many roads through the mountains in Vermont that are generally
>closed from Nov 1st through May 30th each year due to snow.  These could be
>tagged as:
>
>closed = Nov-May
>
>or
>
>closed = yearly
>closure_dates = Nov-May
>
>The hard part would be getting Mapnik to render this information.  It would
>either have to be smart enough to change to the closed rendering during the
>specified dates, or have a different rendering for roads that are closed
>seasonally with the dates indicated after the name.

Out here in the west we have many highways over mountain passes
that are regularly closed during the winter. On typical paper
maps there is text along them that says "closed in winter". Seems
to me we need something similar. 

-- 
Jeff Barlow
WB6CSV