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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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yes, by this blurb, concession for offline users does supersede safety.
i'm an editor active enough to have been granted foundation membership but hadn't known this rule; it indicates a view of osm as analogous to a paper map rather than for real-time navigation. if a change of less than weeks' length is discouraged, i can't in good conscience steer my friends away from google maps, as navigation is not a primary use case.
Hmm, OSM is perhaps the biggest base for alternative navigational software. Seems like a huge design flaw.
I'm obviously oblivious to the implementation difficulties, but it seems like it should be extremely simple to add something akin to a "temporarily closed until" field, so that uses can set and forget, and it'll resolve itself without a secondary edit.
That way, offline users can ignore this field, and nav software must use it.
@MrMusAddict @pootriarch within OSM, it's easy to add a tag like that. Alas, it's getting data users to _use_ that tag can be tricky...
Not too difficult, I imagine. Especially if it's a default field in the UI under Access.
As for the companies making the nav software itself, I'm sure they'd love to implement temporary closures.