[OSM-talk] fixme -- by a specific date

Clifford Snow clifford at snowandsnow.us
Mon Nov 28 22:27:56 UTC 2016


Martijn,
Following your lead, SR20 in Washington State is now closed from milepost
134 to 171 with a fixme to check in spring. I've signed up for an email to
notify me when the road is reopened. FWIW, RS20 is in my backyard. I take
it often.

What would be nice is a tag or note that had a follow up date that people
could subscribe to. It would be useful for seasonal closings, road closures
to construction, date when buildings would be added or removed, and other
date dependant events.

Clifford



On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> Simon,
>
> I'm not looking to add complexity. I'm looking to find a way to deal with
> future events that are certain to impact a feature as described in my
> original post. Basically a way to remind ourselves as a mapping community
> that a feature as it exists currently should be revisited at a fairly well
> defined point in future time. To the best of my understanding the
> opening_hours tag does not help with that. Thoughts?
>
> Martijn
>
> Martijn van Exel
> http://mvexel.github.io/
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
>
>> I'm note quite sure why this use case wouldn't be covered by the normal
>> opening_hours specification as long as we are talking about regular
>> seasonal or month based openings/closures.
>>
>> Given that opening_hours (and the other tags that use the same
>> specification) already includes everything and the kitchen sink it doesn't
>> seem to be sensible to add to the complexity by adding yet another scheme
>> for specifying the same.
>>
>> Simon
>> On 28.11.2016 18:52, Martijn van Exel wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When mapping seasonal closures here in Utah[1] I realized I am still
>> missing a solid way to mark a road as closed for the season and then have
>> some level of confidence that someone will look at it in the spring and
>> 'reopen' it. More generally for someone to map a feature and somehow tag it
>> as needing another look by a certain date.
>>
>> I added a discussion section to the wiki[2] for the fixme tag where I
>> propose adding the fixme:by qualifier to indicate the (approximate) date by
>> which a mapper should look at the feature again.
>>
>> There should be more use cases for this. I can think of proposed or
>> under-construction features for which you may know a projected start /
>> finish date. Or semi-permanent features that you know will disappear at
>> some point. I know HOT has interest in this kind of 'lifecycle' tagging as
>> well.
>>
>> Martijn van Exel
>> http://mvexel.github.io/
>>
>> [1] A lot of fairly major roads close here for the winter, typically
>> between November and May: http://udottraffic.utah.gov/CL
>> ALertViewer.aspx?CLType=3
>> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_
>> features/Key:fixme#Revisit_by_a_certain_date
>>
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