Well, at least on my part, the confusion was because I was thinking in terms of the no exit sign, which is always posted at the entrance to a cul-de-sac, not at the end of it.
On April 5, 2014 8:00:27 PM CDT, Dave Swarthout <daveswarth...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the Wiki is abundantly clear on the usage of this tag. > > I says, among other things, that it is to be used on a node, not on a > way, > and that > > "This tag is mainly useful where a road or path ends close to another > way > but where it isn't possible to get through due to a barrier or other > obstruction which may otherwise look like a mistake for a connection > to the > nearby road" > > the photo illustrates such a "dead-end" perfectly. > > I cannot understand why people are having such a difficult time with > this. > It is to be used to tag the end node of a way from which there is no > way > forward — i.e., if you're traveling along this way, when you come to > this > point you will have to turn around and go out the way you came in. > > Dave > > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 6:56 AM, André Pirard > <a.pirard.pa...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On 2014-04-06 00:07, John F. Eldredge wrote : > > > > If you don't use noexit=yes on ways, what do you use it on? > > > > How do you understand "Use the > *noexit*<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Noexit> > > =yes tag on the node at the end of a > highway<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:highway> > > =* ..."? > > If you read the wiki page very very carefully, you will conclude > that it > > must be used almost on nothing. > > I mean that it must be very very seldom used and that 99%+ of those > 200 > > 000+ tags are errors. > > > > I don't see that it would be meaningful on nodes, areas, or > relations. > > > > What do you think it means? > > > > Cheers, > > > > André. > > > > On April 4, 2014 9:14:24 AM CDT, "Nelson A. de Oliveira" > <nao...@gmail.com> <nao...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:54 AM, fly <lowfligh...@googlemail.com> > <lowfligh...@googlemail.com> > > wrote: > > > > On 03.04.2014 21:22, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:17 PM, fly <lowfligh...@googlemail.com> > <lowfligh...@googlemail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > Is noexit=yes useful on ways ? > > > > The way has one side that has/is an exit :-) > > Tagging the whole way as "noexit=yes" seems strange. > > > > If it is accepted, I gonna hange the wiki accordingly and gonna ask > > > > a > > > > for validator checks in JOSM, as we have more than 100,000 ways > with > > this tag. > > > > Basically I agree with the current text > ofhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noexit (except that I don't > > agree to use it on ways). > > > > I also can't see why, but people also use > noexit=nohttp://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/noexit#values > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
