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The shop has changed and continues to change the opening hours due to the ongoing COVID-19

Closed over 4 years ago by Rodrigo Oooooo

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• Comment from highflyer74 over 4 years ago

  Hello and welcome to OSM!

  Please observe that we generally do not add temporary data. The German community has agreed on not adding any COVID-19 specific data to objects in OSM (please refer to the forum thread https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=68908) as things are changing too quickly and the added data will not be maintained on the long run.

  Apart from COVID-19 you may of course help us to improve data by referring to the wiki for proper tagging (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page)

  Thank you!

• Comment from Rodrigo Oooooo over 4 years ago

  Thank you for the valuable feedback! I am currently exploring how COVID-19-related updates of local businesses can be visualized / shared. I think, then crawling of data from other data sources and mapping the data to OpenStreetMap points is a better way to go. So no modification to OpenStreetMap data.

  Btw, Google Map follows another approach: https://support.google.com/business/answer/9773423?hl=en

  Thanks again.

• Comment from highflyer74 over 4 years ago

  Your're welcome :-) The OSM community (which means mainly people doing this in their spare time) is trying to keep the quality high over a long time.

  Google which (unlike OSM) is funded by people paying for being displayed on some map or search result is offering their customers (!) to adjust their businesses' settings to e.g. temporary opening hours. So it's less community driven and of course based on endless money and computing power.

  To cut it short: yes, your idea to get that temporary data from some external source and use OSM as the background should be the better way.

  Maybe have a look at

  https://umap.openstreetmap.de/

• Comment from dieterdreist over 4 years ago

  Thank you for your edit. Those who criticize this as very short term "temporary" seem to have a crystal sphere. We do indeed map things that are temporarily changed, provided it is more than very short term.

• Comment from Vinber over 4 years ago

  Hi, Hello, in France, we have decided to use a specific label to facilitate the cleaning of the database. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours:covid19.
  It's only to add a point of vue.
  Regards

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