Great feedback. I think we will incorporate both of these as they come up. Thanks for the confirmation.
Dale On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 5:50 AM, Michael Heißmeier < michae...@digital-filestore.de> wrote: > Hi Dale, > > Dale Kunce schrieb 2016-01-23 03:17: > > The Red Cross is continuing our work on mapping the border areas of the > Ebola affected countries in West Africa. Today something that came up is > how exactly to tag border crossings. These are vital for humanitarian and > epidemiology. There is a barrier=border_control > <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/barrier=border_control#map> tag > but from my reading of the wiki > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dborder_control> it > doesn't apply to places where there is no fence. Often the borders in West > Africa are a river ferry with an office set back some distance away. > > I wanted to see people thoughts about the best way forward to track these > features while still working within OSM conventions. > > > I interpret the wiki so that the tag refers to the checkpoint on a way > which crosses a border. I do not see that it has to be part of a border > line. In practice most checkpoints will not be on the border line proper > but rather inside a country's territory. So I would apply the tag on the > position of the way where the control takes places, typically one location > on either side of the border. > > > *Michael (osm:michael63) * > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > -- sent from my mobile device Dale Kunce http://normalhabit.com
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