[Talk-us] Marking closed bridges

[Paul Johnson]

Richard Welty wrote:

> On 12/3/09 11:27 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
>> On 12/3/09 11:00 PM, David Fawcett wrote:
>>    
>>> I agree that it would be good to have a standard answer.  I am
>>> thinking that the tag should be used for both symbology and
>>> connectivity.
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>> i'm going to try out the suggested access=no/description=blahblahblah method
>> see what i think about it.
>>    
> and now that i've seen it, the mapnik rendering is not distinguishable 
> from access=private
>
> on the other hand, we don't tag to get a specific rendering effect from 
> an existing renderer.
>
> maybe an additional term on access ("access=closed"), so that some 
> future renderer will be
> able to distinguish the different reasons for restricted access.

Don't tag for the renderer.  "no" is unambiguous, "closed" doesn't seem
to have any apparent difference in terms of English definition in this
context.