[OSM-talk] Mottram Bypass - proposed roads

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Richard Bullock wrote:
| If it's genuinely under construction now, then if you tag as
| <k=highway v=construction>
| <k=construction v=trunk> (or any other normal highway tag)
|
| Then it will render as a dashed line in Osmarender (but not currently on
| Mapnik)

| I don't see much point in adding dates specifically.

The dates are useful information both now for a future perspective,
(e.g. for planning a route to an event, you might want to make a map of
the roads as they will be when the event happens) and will be useful in
future for a historical perspective, even ignoring the side benefit of
the map changing automatically to the right thing on next re-render.

| I don't think we should
| expect it all to show up as complete in the database magically on the
date.

Why not? Is it that difficult to code? We use YYYY-MM-DD format, so just
a string greater than comparison (i.e. >) is good enough.

| It's not particularly difficult to change it to a highway=trunk (or
| whatever) when it's open. It's rare for a road scheme to open exactly
on the
| stated date anyway, and that's assuming that the powers that be are
going to
| be more specific than say, "opening Summer 08".

Tag it with "start_date=2008-08 approx - Summer 2008". (summer being
June to August, give them the benefit of the doubt and put it at the
end). On the day it opens (or when the opening date is announced),
change it to the date of that day.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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