[OSM-talk] Unknown road classifications

Jannis Achstetter krippi at gmail.com
Fri May 23 15:37:26 BST 2008


Rory McCann schrieb:
> Andy Street wrote:
>> Tagging nodes as complete=no seems a little strange to me unless it
>> refers to a POI. After all it's the way that is incomplete not the node.
>> How would you interpret a node tagged as complete=no that is shared
>> between multiple ways?
>>
>> Personally, I've been mapping with complete=no on the way and adding
>> extra details using the note tag where appropriate.
> 
> My theory is that there should be some way to say "the way isn't 
> finished and continues down this direction from this point". In theory 
> this is like the towards tag, but I don't like the idea of having to put 
> in where the way continues on towards.
> 
> What if the road doesn't continue on towards anywhere in particular? 
> What should one use for the towards tag? This is why I use complete=no.
> 
> Rory
> 

In that case I use name=STUB for ways I don't know the name or they just 
don't have a name (tracks) and in any case "note=stub"

Jannis
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