[OSM-talk] Building Site - landuse=construction

[Andy Allan]

On Dec 14, 2007 10:51 AM, Kyle Gordon <kyle at lodge.glasgownet.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 11:13 +0000, John McKerrell wrote:
> > The Building Site tag has passed through voting now with 8 approvals
> > and no disapprovals. Blackadder did express concern that
> > "construction" could be an ambiguous term, but I think when coupled
> > with "landuse", it's ok. If you meant it as a noun, i.e. "a
> > construction", then you wouldn't use landuse (and in fact you'd
> > probably use building=yes). We can always put put words to that
> > effect on the map features description.
> >
> > So, if I don't get any major flames in response to this email I'll
> > add this new tag to the map feaures page and look at getting it
> > rendered.
> >
> > John
>
> What an awful idea. As rjmunro states, we should be mapping the two
> states of existence, not the transitory state in between. As far as I
> was aware, that is what the start_date and end_date tags are for. Will
> we be mapping allotments with 'landuse=construction' every time someone
> builds a new shed or changes their existing one?

landuse = forest_with_bunnies; end_date = July 2008
landuse = megamall; start_date = May 2010

So what do we render for the 2009 map? Maybe we need (say it quietly)
landuse = construction; start_date = Aug 2008; end_date = April 2010 ?

I'll ignore your strawman argument about allotments; that's not very -
ahem - constructive :-)

Cheers,
Andy