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

[Blaž Lorger]

On Saturday 26 September 2009 20:09:34 Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
There are GroundTruth styles 
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GroundTruth_Hiking_Map#IconTodoJunction) 
with support for tags todo=continue and todo=junction

In this sample 
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Image:GroundTruth_Collage.png) nodes with 
tag todo=continue are represented as purple dots, while nodes with tag 
todo=junction are shown as purple x-es.

> > 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?
> sure it makes sense to get this info somehow into special maps for mappers.
> one option is to add it to garmin maps and you will see it when out there
>  on survey. another option could be to add custom POI or use the  geocache
>  features of a gps device.
> 
> > David
> >
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