Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: [] > Rather than creating special ways, just to show completeness, why not > mark the ways that are already there with weather or not they are > completely connected. I.e. I know that all the roads and footpaths that > connect to my road are on the map, so I could put a tag on the road > saying complete_connected=roads,footpaths or something. We could then > make a map with all the roads that are marked as not completed coloured. > > Also, if we could make a tag for a road that you have seen one end of > but haven't mapped down, that would be useful. Some people use 3 > unconnected nodes as a sort of ... symbol on the map, but this doesn't > work very well. A short way that was tagged specially would indicate to > people that that area needed surveying because the roads weren't > complete. If a road had these for all the roads joining it, I would mark > it as complete in the scheme above. > > Robert (Jamie) Munro
Isn't that FIXME? Validator picks this up especially (in JOSM) & highlights it. I initially thought this was bad, but have just added it to all un-named roads in 'my' area because an un-named road on my GPS looks, well, like any other, but this tag shows up in my editor, on my GPS while I'm out - and denotes a particular level of completeness. I have also used note:TODO to mark a path end I'm not going down yet, because I can search on it - but have swapped them for FIXME now. The above 'Three Dots' would tend to pick up in Validator too, but with a tempting 'Fix' button to unmark them ;) Obviously this only applies to marking incompleteness, which is (as previously observed) relatively simple... I think if all this gets to proposals, I'd go for an 'incompleteness' markup which could include things the mapper knows he hasn't done, + anything a script spots isn't done, + any casual visitors observed needs, etc - any time an important new feature comes up, it _could_ get added globally & removed progressively? A 'complete' markup will go obsolete every time a vote gets approved & can't cope with things we hadn't thought of at the time, and it's all very well saying it's only for given parts but just look at highway tagging for example - bus_guideway, turning_circle are in progress, and will promptly render many 'streets complete' tags wrong if approved. Mark _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
