[OSM-talk] long term, but non permanent road closures

[OJW]

A road with start and end dates still gets rendered though doesn't it?  So by 
using tags (access=no, date_on=...) which aren't checked by osmarender/mapnik 
then people will be following our maps down the closed road.

When I found one of these in Bedford, I changed it to highway=closed:secondary 
to reflect the actual situation (no usable road there) and the osmarender map 
got updated within an hour or so.  If someone changes it back to 
highway=secondary, it should appear on the map again pretty quickly.

If the renderers *did* want to look at date tags, then there needs to be some 
script running to say "tile x,y needs to be rerendered on 2007-12-20 when it 
reopens".  Is anyone working on such a script?  

A neater solution might be to try and do the "dotted version of the road 
rendering" idea


On Friday 09 November 2007 05:41:55 Franc Carter wrote:
> Thanks - that sounds like a good enough solution
>
> cheers
>
> On 11/8/07, Alex S. <maps at swavely.com> wrote:
> > Franc Carter wrote:
> > > In an area close to me there are some road closures that will be in
> > > affect for many months (maybe longer) while sewers works are being
> > > carried out.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions on how I should map this ?
> >
> > For a one-month closure, you could do the following:
> > access=no
> > date_on=20071107
> > date_off=20071207
> >
> >
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