I found that the current way of mapping opening time of features in OSM map are too limiting, and the opening time of some features cannot be properly represented with only the current syntax, therefore I have written a brief idea about how the syntax in key opening_hours could have been expanded to match more different needs at the article's talk page. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Key:opening_hours#Proposed_extension_to_supported_syntax_in_the_page. . It would be nice if these features can be added into the scheme so that relevant featurs opening days and time can be represented by the scheme directly instead of via text description and external link.
The most significant part of what I would like to see are support for solar term(節氣/节气/節気/절기/Tiết khí) and (East Asia) lunar (lunisolar) calendar(舊曆/旧历/旧暦/음력/Nông lịch). And because the calculation of both are dependent on timezone and then when some countries celebrate these festivals they use the calendar that is not based on their own country's time but use the Chinese time (or time of other countries for overseas diaspora of them) so I have also added a proposal to support timezone specification in the scheme which is also desired by some other users on the talk page. Note that the scheme I proposed to express solar term and lunar month representation wasn't actually that much intuitive but I believe it have an advantage that it's more internationalized and thus providing a common way of tagging features across different regions that use the calendar. Additionally, I have also written in the proposal that I would like to see additional supported values for bank holidays, offset in term of number of weeks, and also support for timestamp beyond 24 hours in the scheme. Expressing time beyond 24 hours can be especially meaningful when the operator of those features decided to release their time this way and it can reduce error when inputing or transporting data into OSM as it is not uncommon for people to forget properly converting dates when they are asked to change the time format back to 00-23h format. And while it seems like the de facto standard, I would also like to see the formalization of the handling of time range representation like Su 23:00-07:00 that in such syntax the 07:00 is referring to 07:00 on the next day. Any thought on the proposal? _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
