Re: [Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

2013-01-18 Thread Janko Mihelić
2013/1/18 Martin Koppenhoefer > > it is similar to what others do with "disused:amenity=restaurant" > (prefixes to prevent applications to get it wrong --- they simply > won't get it at all). (IIRR, taginfo search is down at the moment). > Maybe "disused:xxx=yyy" could be used for the McDonalds

Re: [Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

2013-01-18 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/1/18 Janko Mihelić : > 2013/1/18 Greg Troxel >> amenity=restaurant >> closed_status=really-long-time-probably-not-reopening >> >> is not likely to lead to the right results on a GPSr POI search. > > > I agree, but there is no quick solution to this. We have to start using a > tag and hope

Re: [Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

2013-01-18 Thread Janko Mihelić
2013/1/18 Greg Troxel > > Also, I think showing a non-operating restaurant on a map is at least > 20x as bad as not showing an open one. > That's for a mapper to decide. Local mappers know best if a restaurant is likely to open soon or stay like that forever. amenity=restaurant > closed_sta

Re: [Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

2013-01-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Erik Johansson writes: > Removing things is not such a good idea when you have > people downloading offline data and use data that is 6 months to a > year of of date, I don't think we should optimize the database for bugs in people's processing pipelines. I have not encountered good reasons to

Re: [Tagging] Powerlines underground

2013-01-18 Thread François Lacombe
Hi. I follow the suggestion of Oligo. The discussion continues on the cable tag's page ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:power%3Dcable). Regards. 2013/1/17 François Lacombe > Yes you're right. > > But I location values list sould be completed to match the proper one the > mapper

Re: [Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

2013-01-18 Thread Erik Johansson
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:17 AM, wrote: > There is a fast food franchise site which is closed for renovation in my > vicinity. Two questions: > * Would you support or recommend tagging a transient state like 'closed for > renovation'? > * If one were to indicate temporary closure, how would on

Re: [Tagging] business closed for renovation - tagging best practice

2013-01-18 Thread Georg Feddern
Am 17.01.2013 16:42, schrieb Janko Mihelić: Well then you decide what its status is. Is it an abandoned building (building=yes), or is it a temporarily closed McDonalds (building=yes, amenity=restaurant, temporary:opening_hours=off). If someone says "Meet me at the abandoned McDonalds", you