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

[Apollinaris Schoell]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:15 AM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> agreed if we keep osm  a geeky projects for mappers without any usefulness
until we  finish the project. but it is already useful for others. let's
have it useful for all. the geeks can render their own maps with all fancy
bug/maplint overlays easily. fixme tags are shown as warning in Josm
validator. there is already openstreetbugs,keepright, maplint, .... offering
something for the average mapper. there is no need to have such a thing on a
main map.



> I think, and have thought from the beginning, that clear indications of
> completeness or otherwise would help everyone enormously.
>
> absolutely, but it's important not to break things for the different minded
consumers of the data and maps.



> David
>
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