https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/35.315042/23.675898
I wanted to ask general question about “no exit” I want to make it politely clear that there is no criticism of the edit that I use above I am just using it to make an example. At the end of the dirt road shown in the link above, there is a no exit tag. This is fundamentally correct. It’s on top of the big mountain and basically after that there is the strata no way of an exit I have visited the area several times. What is the purpose of the new exit tag? I realise this may be very useful in a city or village, where the possibility exists of continuing along the road, but the reality = not for a variety of reasons. I could add “no exit” tags to land track access roads but so far I have not done so. If there are examples where this might be helpful please reply. Have a good weekend everybody. I shall visit this area again soon weather permitting
A possible reason is to refrain other mappers from accidentally connecting that path with another or continuing it any further.
Another reason would be to stop any possible QA issues that arise in some tools when the path is kinda close to another path.
ironically it may now be connected! I will try to visit there at some point to verify. As you are well aware, farmers can be very enthusiastic with bulldozers and JCBs, if there is some benefit to the work!
It is indeed fairly useless in the case you selected, where there are no other ways near the endpoint. It’s much more useful in dense areas where a fence blocks two paths from reaching each other.
It’s not that useless. It also indicates that there is a real dead end and not a situation where e.g. the highway continues but just hasn’t been surveyed/mapped yet.
I think it’s helpful to think of noexit=yes as a signal to other mappers (and perhaps any automated validation tools they use) that the road just abruptly ending there is intentional and reflects reality (at least as of the time it’s mapped). Like, routers and tools that end-users would use shouldn’t really do anything different based on whether the last node of a way has the noexit tag or whether it doesn’t. But it can be helpful to others looking at it to know that it was an intentional choice to stop the way there at the time.
yes i put one in a residential area that looked passable but when i visited it the owner had stopped access.
just interested as stated absolutely no criticism of anyone else’ s preferences
How? Gate, bollard, dug the road up, put in a no trespassing sign?