Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Finding untagged dead-ends

2012-02-15 Thread John F. Eldredge
p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: I am struggling to understand why this is seen as an error that needs fixing. I can think of plenty of roads that end in eithsr a dead end or become a footpath, bridleway. Many are single track where the only way out is a very long reverse. These are a feature

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Finding untagged dead-ends

2012-02-15 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:19 AM, John F. Eldredge j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: p...@trigpoint.me.uk wrote: I am struggling to understand why this is seen as an error that needs fixing. I can think of plenty of roads that end in eithsr a dead end or become a footpath, bridleway. Many are

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Finding untagged dead-ends

2012-02-15 Thread John Sturdy
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: I don't really see the value of a generic noexit=yes tag - it can and should be inferred from the network. But finding dead ends can be valuable for tagging the countless turning circles / cul-de-sacs that exist in

Re: [Talk-us] [OSM-talk] Finding untagged dead-ends

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
I know at some point there was someone who had assembled a Mechanical Turk-like proof-of-concept for tagging turning circles from aerials, which seems like a nice project to advance, although it does rely on positional accuracy being better than is usually the case in the raw TIGER import.