[Talk-us] Finding untagged dead-ends

[Mark Gray]

I am the one who was working on the tagging turning circles web page.

You can still try out the prototype at:

http://vatavia.net/mark/osmqc

The OSM wiki for "QuickCheck: Newbie-safe semi-automated edits" is:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/QuickCheck

My perl script for finding dead ends in a .osm file is at:

http://vatavia.net/mark/osmqc/finddeadends.pl

I had not heard of the noexit=yes tag when I was working on this a
couple of years ago but I did wish for some way to keep track of
dead ends that really are just a simple end instead of an untagged
turning circle or a mistakenly missing intersection. I was
planning to just keep track of them on my own outside OSM so I
could stop asking people about that road end after a few had
identified it as a simple dead end.

I still think it would be great for us to have something like the
prototype but I had difficulty getting better imagery to load in
my web page and it needs more back-end support for doing something
with the information that users provide.

-- 
Mark Gray