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High,<br>
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During the discussion of this tag, it was said that a sure culprit
for incorrect noexit=yes tags, is a misleading phrasing<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Use the noexit=yes tag at the end of a <tt
style="background-color:#dde; white-space:pre;" dir="ltr"><a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway"
title="Key:highway">highway</a>=*</tt> to indicate that there
is no possibility to travel further by any transport mode along a
formal path or route.</blockquote>
and that, this sentence being the first one, they read just that and
ignore the warnings and tag noexit=yes on any dead end as said.<br>
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Hence, it was decided to put the warnings first and to rewrite that
phrase in a more precise way:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Use the <tt style="background-color:#dde;
white-space:pre;" dir="ltr"><strong class="selflink">noexit</strong>=yes</tt>
tag on the node <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Elements#Node"
title="Node"><img alt="Node"
src="cid:part2.09090209.05080908@gmail.com"
srcset="/w/images/thumb/7/76/Osm_element_node.svg/30px-Osm_element_node.svg.png
1.5x,
/w/images/thumb/7/76/Osm_element_node.svg/40px-Osm_element_node.svg.png
2x" width="20" height="20"></a> at the end of a <tt
style="background-color:#dde; white-space:pre;" dir="ltr"><a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway"
title="Key:highway">highway</a>=*</tt> to indicate when
doubtful that the impossibility to travel further by any transport
mode is perfectly normal, due to otherwise existing road layout.
</blockquote>
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Without any warning, <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Floscher"
title="User:Floscher" class="mw-userlink">Floscher</a> put the
misleading sentence back to the beginning, duplicating the correct
version below.<br>
So, I removed that phrase to conform to the decision to explain that
tag correctly instead of misleadingly.<br>
<br>
He restored the icons that I had restored myself to "node only" but
that Pieren had set to "node+way".<br>
<br>
He also removed my sort of "acknowledgement" that noexit=yes is
effectively being tagged on ways and which was the right place to
say that it must <b>not</b> be done. I don't mind that removal at
all, but you should bulk erase the noexit=yes tags on ways and
explicitly say that they must not come back.<br>
When I see that first phrase, that the "When <b>not</b> to use" §
does not mention "on ways" but on waterways and railways and that
"Rendering" says "When tagged on a node..." I wonder if all those
gotchas are not made on purpose.<br>
<br>
Well, I finally put this at the beginning:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Read important warnings first, then read tag
syntax in paragraph <b>Usage</b>.
<p>Do not use this tag on ways (only on nodes).
</p>
</blockquote>
There's little excuses any more.<br>
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Last thing: many people believe that road signs (and other funny
things) are used by router software (and this is not encouraging at
all to believe in OSM GPSes). They want to, and do, tag the dead-end
road sign whose icon
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Zeichen_357.svg"
class="image" title="German dead-end sign"><img alt="German
dead-end sign" src="cid:part6.01030605.03060505@gmail.com"
srcset="/w/images/thumb/c/cd/Zeichen_357.svg/38px-Zeichen_357.svg.png
1.5x,
/w/images/thumb/c/cd/Zeichen_357.svg/50px-Zeichen_357.svg.png
2x" width="25" height="25"></a> is used by this page to render
the other road end. Expect that icon to pop up at both ends of the
ways for added fun one of these days ;-)<br>
<br>
See you at the next noexit=yes on ways discussion.<br>
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