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

[David Earl]

On 26/09/2009 19:09, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
>     But as I said, I'd much rather have a specific, rendered, "more to do
>     here" tag for stubs that is removed when the way is extended.
> not a good idea for the normal map. have you ever seen any other 
> commercial map with "hey look this map is incomplete BS"  info?

On the contrary. It's something that *increases* confidence in the map, 
as at least you know. It's being honest. There are no other maps like 
OSM really, which is why people have expectations that all maps are 
complete. At least if you tell people they know what to expect. And in 
any case, we mappers are currently the biggest consumer of our own maps.

I think, and have thought from the beginning, that clear indications of 
completeness or otherwise would help everyone enormously.

David