[OSM-talk] How to tag dead-ends and how to distinguish them from incomplete ways

[David Paleino]

Kai at VieleVisels wrote:

> Hi,
> many people tag ways, which are incomplete and show just the beginning,
> with the note (or FIXME) = stub. In the wiki, the tag noexit=no is
> intended for this. I think it would be helpful have one way to tag this
> and to render both (dead-ends and incomplete ways), to show where work has
> to be done.
> 
> Any comments on this?

I agree that using noexit=no is a good thing to do.

> PS: noexit=no is not without problems, often there are ways which start as
> a very good track, but end after some kilometers. So a tag displaying that
> only the beginning of the track is displayed, would be better

Why? If a way/node is noexit=no, you are telling people that this road 
continues somewhere, somehow. As I understand it, it could be the same road, 
or another one crossing. The first case, being the same road, applies here 
-- dead end roads where only the beginning has been mapped.


Anyways, what's the current way of using noexit=*? I've always used that on 
ways, the wiki suggests that too, but reading the Talk page it seems like 
there was some intention to tag the final node with it? Also josm shows the 
dead-end signal when applied to a node. Did I miss something?

Kindly,
David

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