On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Dave Stubbs <osm.l...@randomjunk.co.uk> wrote: >>>> In the IRC channel i was told, that there are users who paint >>>> empty nodes in the map to mark things like >>>> "road is not mapped, but continues here" >>> >>> I do this occasionally, and I'm sure I haven't made this up but got >>> the practice from someone/somewhere else - when a way is drawn and you >>> know it goes on but haven't mapped it, you put three "dots", just as >>> you do in written language: >>> >>> --------------- . . . > > I've no idea where I first came across it, but I have also used it as > far back as 2006. We didn't have any aerial imagery to trace, so if > nobody had walked down that way with a GPS you had no idea where it > was going, but you might have a name or something from the end, so you > put in a small stub road and dot dot dot. There also wasn't much of a > map viewer, or styled editing, so three dots was a lot more obvious > when editing than a tag.
Here's some documentation on it from 2007, along with some other styles in common use back then (e.g. the arrowhead made from untagged segments) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/More_to_be_Mapped _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
