[Talk-us] Tagging Closed Roads

[Mike Thompson]

Russ,

Thanks for taking action on this.

Mike


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Russell Deffner <russdeffner at gmail.com>wrote:

> My apologies for messaging backward regarding the CO Floods and road
> tagging.  I think I have gone back through the conversation and captured it
> here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2013_Colorado_Floods - I also
> added
> my two cents of using damaged: or destroyed: key
>
> As with wiki's please feel free to edit, I will have limited availability
> this week but will try to contribute some mapping time (and look over the
> wiki and talk list).
>
> =Russ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stevea [mailto:steveaOSM at softworkers.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 11:03 PM
> To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> Cc: Evin Fairchild
> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Tagging Closed Roads
>
> I suggest tags highway=proposed and/or highway=construction tags can
> be used, depending on what you know and/or see (in that order).
>
> If a section of washed-out road is an "island" that cannot be gotten
> to, it might properly be tagged access=no.  Ditto for roads that are
> still physically extant, but have been essentially "condemned" by,
> say a municipality, county road department or state DOT.
>
> In other words, OSM can excel here at exceedingly accurately
> describing the state of the road network, right down to any
> granularity or level of detail, whether still there and open, still
> there but closed, gone but going to be rebuilt, or actually being
> rebuilt.  There are other combinations, I'm sure:  tag appropriately!
>
> SteveA
> California
>
>
> >If the road is washed out to the point where it is completely gone
> >(as opposed to only part of it being washed out) and a new road
> >would have to be rebuilt on a new route, I would just delete the
> >segment of road that got washed out. The road isn't there now, so it
> >should be shown as such in OSM.
>
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