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

[Dave F.]

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?
>  
> Kai
>  
> 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
Thanks for pointing this out.
Would you tag the whole way of just the end node?

Cheers
Dave F.