Key:operational_status

Description
Observation of the current functional status of a mapped feature - now discouraged Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: lifecycle
Used on these elements
use on nodes unspecifieduse on ways unspecifieduse on areas unspecifieduse on relations unspecified
Documented values: 2
See also
Status: in usePage for proposal
More details at taginfo
Tools for this tag

The key =* has been used in the past to document an observation of the current functional status of a mapped feature.

In the past this tag was sometimes used by the HDM for Humanitarian mapping projects, for example with amenity=drinking_water. It has also been used with building imports and some organized mapping activities, e.g. SAU data to OSM and Anganwadi Centers and Health Centers Import from Open Data Telangana.

Values in use

A wide variety of similar values have been used with this key, many with overlapping meanings.

Positive (functional / operational):

  • =operational Facility was observed to be operating and serves its basic function
  • =open
  • =ok
  • =functional
  • =yes

limited :

  • =needs_maintenance Facility serves its basic function, but something is broken or missing
  • =restricted Facility serves its basic function, but there is some limitation

Negative (Not operational or function):

  • =closed use disused:*=* instead
  • =broken
  • =out_of_order
  • =non-operational (also in use: =non_operational and other variants, see discussion.)
  • =under_construction

Uncertain:

  • =unspecified

Problems

Note that =out_of_order and similar tags are highly problematic and are form of trolltag.

If place has no drinking water then amenity=drinking_water should not be placed there. For places where no longer working drinking fountain or some its remains are present lifecycle prefixes are more fitting. disused:amenity=drinking_water/broken:amenity=drinking_water/etc would be superior.

Expecting that all data consumers will check and exclude =broken =closed =non-operational =under_construction =non_operational and other such tags is not reasonable, as list of such values (and keys) may expand at any time.

Proposal for a similar tag, life_cycle=* was rejected: Proposal:Status, but lifecycle prefixes like disused:*=* and abandoned:*=* are active.

Synonymous tags in use

  • stateofrepair=*


See also

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