[Talk-us] Jefferson Notch Road and latest "GPS made me do it" in the news

[Greg Troxel]

Tod Fitch <tod at fitchfamily.org> writes:

> In the California Sierra Nevada I tagged a couple of roads with:
>
> conditional:access=“no @ (Nov-May)”
> note=“Seasonal closure from first snow until spring, see CalTrans website for status”
> website=“http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi”
>
> With the barrier=gate at either end of the seasonal section tagged with the same conditional:access and note tags.
>
> In retrospect, I probably should have used a description tag rather than a note tag for the descriptive text.

Agreed on description vs note.  My impression is that note is appopriate
to communicate something to future mappers, when the intent is to have
them improve it and remove the note.  Perhaps I only feel that way
because OsmAnd shows note= and fixme= when osm editing support is turned
on.