[Draft Stage Proposal] Types of road construction

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I recently created a proposal for the types of road construction. The key should be used with highway=construction to specify the type of construction being completed. The new key is named construction_type and has 4 possible values:

  • build: A new road being built.
  • pave: An existing road being paved or repaved.
  • reconstruct: An existing road being reconstructed.
  • other: Another type of road construction.

For more info, please read the wiki page for the proposal.

I am requesting for any suggestions or comments related to the proposal!

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I still do not really understand how this kind of data would be used.

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What is the boundary between pave and reconstruct: if existing road being repaved and one stop sign is being renewed — is it already reconstruct?

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I think it would be interesting to see some concrete use-cases for this. One use-case I quickly thought of was to approximate for how long the construction will be ongoing (building takes longer than paving etc.), but we already have tags for that (opening_date).

Regarding the proposed construction_type=pave especially; most re-paving jobs (at least here, in Sweden) are over within a timeframe of weeks to at worst months, which is commonly regarded as too short/temporary to be mapped in OSM.

If this key would be accepted; I also think it’d make sense to add a value to represent infrastructure work (when the road is torn up to work on underground infrastructure such as pipes).

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@02JanDal I’ll remove paving, and infrastructure work is infrastructure, will add
@VShkaberda In the above entry it states that I will remove paving according to @02JanDal’s suggestion.
@Mateusz_Konieczny It is used to map what specific construction work is taking place on a highway/road.

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UPDATE: pave and other have been removed, and related_work and infrastructure have been added

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yes, I understood that part. But how you would use this data? For what purpose?

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build, pave and reconstruct could be useful for OHM. I’m not sure if it’s needed in OSM since it’s related to temporary events.

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To provide more clarity over the interpretation of highway=construction.

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In which cases this extra clarity/info is useful or needed?

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UPDATE: The proposal has been cancelled