Proposal:Details of construction
| Details of construction | |
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| Proposal status: | Canceled (inactive) |
| Proposed by: | Ewrt1 |
| Tagging: | project:*=* |
| Statistics: |
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| Draft started: | 2024-02-16 |
| RFC start: | 2024-02-17 |
Proposal
This proposal aims to create a system for tagging the details of construction for highway=construction, building=construction, landuse=construction, and railway=construction.
Rationale
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There are lots of services that depend on OSM, for example, GPS and map services. A map service wants to let the user know of a new residential area construction project. The user wants the details. Let's say the user is a bot for a large mapping corporation that needs construction project data from OSM.
If there were tags for that, the bot would have the information it needs for the corporation's mapping projects. The corporation would have enough data to use in those projects.
If there weren't (which is the scenario we have in OSM today), the bot would not have the information the corporation needs.
Tagging
This proposal aims to introduce the project:*=* key prefix for construction details.
For all tags: Used on an 
area or 
way.
project:name=*
- Description: The name of the specific project.
- Values to be formally defined: N/A (any text can be used as value)
- Example value:
City Neighborhood Modernization Project of 2024
project:type=*
- Description: Type of work being done. Has multiple meanings; it can relate to highway construction work type, and it can relate to buildings being built or renovating.
- Values to be formally defined:
build(used for both highways, buildings, and railways),renovation(for buildings only),infrastructure(used for infrastructure near a highway)
project:closed=*
- Description: Is the entire highway stretch closed or does it just have construction activities on it?
- Values to be formally defined:
yes,no - Requires: highway=construction
project:closed:lanes=*
- Description: If project:closed=* is set to
noor is not added to an object, are there any lanes that are closed? If so, how many are closed? - Values to be formally defined: N/A (any number of lanes)
- Requires: highway=construction
Examples
Objects tagged with highway=construction, building=construction, landuse=construction, and railway=construction
Features/Pages affected
- construction=*
- highway=construction, building=construction, landuse=construction, and railway=construction
MUTCD pages (for highways)
External discussions
RFC announcements
- https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/rfc-feature-proposal-details-of-construction/109398
- https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2024-February/067748.html
Comments
Please comment on the discussion page.