Talk:Tag:highway=construction

Impassable

I added a short note to the first line clarifying that a road under construction is impassable by the traffic it was intended for. I did this because I notice people marking roads undergoing construction but still usable as highway=construction. Since this impacts both the visual map and more importantly routing software, I thought this an important clarification. --Martijn van Exel (talk) 16:01, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

Planned constructions

There is currently no way to register a planned instruction. There is 'opening_date' but no 'closing_date'. It would be nice to have that (or a similar) tag to plan ahead.--Discobiker (talk) 12:32, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

What do you want to map? There is a tag for planned road construction: highway=proposed. maro21 23:26, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

There is a planned construction here where they announced that a portion of highway will be closed during a certain date span. I would like to be able to set a closing_date in advance, so it becomes automatically active at the particular date. I am aware that at some point these tags have to removed again, since they are obsolete. --Discobiker (talk) 09:30, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Nothing will happen automatically even if you add this tag. On OSM we don't map future and temporary events. maro21 17:06, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Well, that is not exactly true. Routing based on OSM does take similar things into account - for example there is a bridge here that is only open during certain months of the year and the rest of the (due to proper maintained opening times in OSM) the routing automatically takes it into account and finds another way. Why not use closing_date/opening_date in a similar manner.--Discobiker (talk) 00:20, 21 November 2024 (UTC)