[OSM-talk] timed access restrictions and Mapnik

[John Smith]

On 30 August 2010 21:52, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
> We recently had a bridge temporarily removed for the SAIL 2010 event
> in Amsterdam[1].
> I tagged it access=no with date_on and date_off time restriction tags
> as suggested on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:access, hoping
> it would be picked up by Mapnik as well.
> It turns out it is not and the road is still rendered as a no access
> road even though the date_off is over a week ago. This discourages
> tagging temporary access restrictions - could we make it so that it
> does take date_on and date_off into account?

Due to the nature of caching tiles it doesn't seem feasible to think
temporary tagging would be handled in the way you think it should,
however I do expect routing software might be a better place for these
types of things to be dealt with.