[Talk-us] Marking closed bridges

Randy rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 4 23:46:41 GMT 2009


Jeff Barlow wrote:

>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.

access=seasonal, with a second tag for open or closed dates?

-- 
Randy





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