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Hi,<br>
<br>
Side note: Please note that I just found two versions of the "Use
the noexit=yes tag..." text. One ahead that says that it must be
used only on nodes and the former one inside that says that it can
be used on ways too. I left the newcomer where it was: ahead but
stroked out at your disposal. Fun, fun, fun.<br>
<br>
So, Pieren added to that page that noexit=yes can be tagged on ways.<br>
He did this because contributors do that tagging, "open-mindedly".<br>
Friends pointed out quite rightly that what the specification
explains cannot possibly be tagged on a way. It's inescapable.<br>
Insistence to make the impossible come true generated an endless,
fruitless discussion.<br>
<br>
As I find that understanding the meaning of a tag on the map is
important, I pointed out that no one had asked why the contributors
tagged noexit=yes that way and that the only clues came from those
who spoke up: "I had not consulted the specification [for a long
time]", "A friend recommended that", 'I thought that I was tagging a
No Exit sign", ...<br>
Except for the last, they don't explain the meaning of their tags,
but one thing appears certain: the meaning is different from the
specification which (btw/because it) is vastly misunderstood.<br>
And what else, if they don't have the subtleties of the
specification in mind, could it be that "the No Exit sign"?<br>
<br>
So, to make this explanation short and kill two birds with one
stone, <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noexit">please
read</a>, I modified the wiki as follows:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">The noexit=yes tag has two meanings
according to whether it's on a node or on a way:<br>
<br>
On a node: present text, but "Use ... on a node"<br>
<br>
On a way: Use the <tt style="background-color:#e0e0f0;
white-space:pre;" dir="ltr"><strong class="selflink">noexit</strong>=yes</tt>
tag on a way <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Elements#Way"
title="Way"><img alt="Way"
src="cid:part2.00090602.02000807@gmail.com"
srcset="/w/images/thumb/e/ee/Osm_element_way.svg/30px-Osm_element_way.svg.png
1.5x,
/w/images/thumb/e/ee/Osm_element_way.svg/40px-Osm_element_way.svg.png
2x" width="20" height="20"></a> to indicate that the way is
leading to a dead end.<br>
</blockquote>
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Remarks (here):<br>
<ul>
<li>Please note that it would logically be necessary to indicate
which direction leads to the dead end.</li>
<li>The second definition is not exactly complete. Some
contributors tag noexit=yes all over a small, meshed
neighborhood that contains a dead end road, but not necessarily
if there's only one entry road. Well, putting it short again, a
more appropriate description in that case (when the said
way/road crosses junctions) would be: "to indicate that one will
have to return to the road through which one came into this
place".<br>
</li>
</ul>
I'm leaving to the noexit-on-ways specialist(s) to decide of the
exact usage/definition and of the contents of its paragraph.<br>
<br>
But please, no more or a minimum of discussion about noexit-on-nodes
which stands very logical in its shoes.<br>
The only thing I have to say is that its new rendering shows at one
end of a road the road sign that's in reality at the other end and
that this doesn't help much the on-a-way-sister-spec to show that
direction, if used jointly.<br>
<br>
Is everybody happy now?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
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<td>André.</td>
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