[Talk-us] Beaver dam? Wrecked bridge? Hallucinatory roads in TIGER?

[Richard Welty]

On 12/22/14 3:27 AM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
> I've frequently wanted to map "the trails that peter out" for exactly 
> the reason you state.
>
> The choices as a mapper seem wrong:
> 1) Map the trail : thus encouraging use of a flawed route.
> 2) Don't map the trail.  The casual map reader thinks OSM is missing 
> something.
>
>
> Possible solutions include a node type of "becomes indistinct", or 
> "dead end".
> How to mark the way is trickier.
perhaps a new access tag..

access=deprecated
access=not_recommended

something else?

richard

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