[Tagging] Tagging a currently-closed public athletic field

2010-09-21 Thread John F. Eldredge
Nashville, Tennessee, USA was hit by a thousand-year flood on May 1st and May 2nd, 2010 (that is, a flood severe enough that is unlikely to occur more than once in a thousand-year period). One of the consequences was that a small park, containing a softball field used mostly by children's teams

Re: [Tagging] Tagging a currently-closed public athletic field

2010-09-21 Thread Sean Horgan
John, Here is an approach that I took for a similar situation. I tagged some buildings that were damaged from Hurricane Ike in Galveston Texas as "disused=yes" and I place a note saying why. Here is an example of one: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/914783304 I've heard others suggest

Re: [Tagging] Tagging a currently-closed public athletic field

2010-09-21 Thread John Smith
On 22 September 2010 06:45, Sean Horgan wrote: > I've heard others suggest updating the current tag, such as > "amenity=disused". The only problem with that is it would obscure any amenities that may have been damaged that they're planning to fix etc, I'd stick with disused=yes so you know what w

Re: [Tagging] Tagging a currently-closed public athletic field

2010-09-21 Thread Sean Horgan
agreed. I prefer disused=yes myself but I wanted to at least mention another approach I've read. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 15:45, John Smith wrote: > On 22 September 2010 06:45, Sean Horgan wrote: > > I've heard others suggest updating the current tag, such as > > "amenity=disused". > > The only

Re: [Tagging] Tagging a currently-closed public athletic field

2010-09-21 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:45 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 22 September 2010 06:45, Sean Horgan wrote: >> I've heard others suggest updating the current tag, such as >> "amenity=disused". > > The only problem with that is it would obscure any amenities that may > have been damaged that they're plann