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Can't remove restaurant / mark it as closed #55
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Hello, When a restaurant has closed, OpenStreetMap recommends replacing the POI with the new shop/restaurant that replaces it. (However, I might add a message explaining that more complex changes need to be done directly on OSM.) |
Hi Rudloff, thanks for your answer. I understand your logic, and keeping the OVM editor simple is clearly a very good idea, however I don't think it makes sense from the user's perspective. Putting myself in a user's shoes: If I can add a restaurant to keep the map up to date, why can't I remove a place, or at the very least mark it as closed to avoid other people going there and finding the place closed? Nothing makes people distrust a map app more than going to a POI because the map says it's there and then finding it doesn't exist. If it's the case for one POI, how do I know it's not the case for any other one? Therefore I really think we should find a way to allow users to report a place as closed. I know that OSM recommends removing the old POI and creating a new one in its place (at least, that what I was told a few years ago when I asked), but a workaround could be to send a simple tag to OSM such as "FIXME:closed" when a user marks a POI as closed and then filter out POIs that have the tag, to avoid presenting them to users. (We could also then have a bot that scans the OSM db for that tag and closes them or flags them for further review, but that's another issue.) I message explaining how to do more complex changes directly in OSM could also be useful. Thanks! |
But it doesn't mean that we can't remove outdated POIs. Right? |
The editor does not require any login so I certainly will not add a way to delete nodes. However, if we can use a simple tag like |
I think |
Where is |
Nowhere, I've found it here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lifecycle_prefix |
Untag a closed restaurant from vegetarian/vegan key words will also remove it from the OVM results list. Not the best solution for OSM, but good for OVM. |
Hi,
While the app suggests to add a restaurant, it doesn't offer an option to remove a place that has closed or at least mark it as closed.
This would be very useful as, unfortunately, some of the restaurants disappear over time, leaving the app in a less-than-useful state.
I suggest putting this in the "edit" menu of each restaurant.
Thanks!
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