Cul-de-sacs

General talk
1

Hey guys, not sure if this has been asked before, but anyway…

What should be done about cul-de-sacs when drawing a way?

  1. Draw a straight line.

or

  1. Draw a straight line with a loop at the end.

Is there any correct way to draw it or does it even matter? If this needs clarification, let me know…

  • Justin
2

According to the Map features a cul de sac is tagged with ‘noexit=yes’. So I’d go for option 1 and add the noexit tag.

3

I’ve never seen the noexit-yes tag. I don’t think it is nessesery, as it can never have more than 1 exit as its a col-de-sac, as otherwise it wouldn’t be a dead end. The loop at the end of the col-de-sac should have its own way, and tagged with area=yes as well as highway=residential. There is/was a proposal for turning circles to have a tag for nodes also.

4

any change or progress on these?

5

this is the wiki page where turning circles were in discussion. There hasn’t been much progress though. Tagging the area at the end with area=yes works, and allows any shape, and therefore this may be why there hasn’t been much progression on this wiki page, as it isn’t much of a problem.