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We are having a spate of letters about road closures for gas works, maintenance etc, also some foot and cycle paths, and rail lines. If there was, say an #XMPP XSF for the information in a machine readable form it could be published by gas and electric companies, highways agencies etc, probably as proposed and then approved. Subscribers would be mapping providers, Google, #OpenStreetMap, Garmin etc, maybe logistics companies etc.

The same 'this route is closed' format could carry information about unplanned closures, such as accidents, published by police and highways agencies, and read by route planners, and radio stations who broadcast traffic news, possibly even direct to car/truck etc satnavs. This could carry information such as whether the route was still available for emergency vehicles (say a road closed due to an accident) or not (e.g. a bridge collapsed)

Broadening it out a bit, it could carry the information that a route was Restricted - for example a new speed limit, route for pedestrians only, buses only etc (possibly between certain times)