Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

2015-07-07 Thread Alex Barth
This is great work, thank you for setting this up Martijn! On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > I have done some work to turn the FRA crossing data into a MapRoulette > challenge to fix missing railway crossings. > > Here is the description I have come up with fo

Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

2015-07-07 Thread Charlotte Wolter
Matijn, By the way, what is the difference between "crossing" and "level_crossing"? --C At 03:30 PM 7/7/2015, you wrote: Hey Mike — Crossings already present in OSM will not be excluded, but can be easily skipped over. In most cases you can see them on the rendered map tiles so

Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

2015-07-07 Thread Martijn van Exel
Hey Mike —  Crossings already present in OSM will not be excluded, but can be easily skipped over. In most cases you can see them on the rendered map tiles so no need for a round trip to the editor. Martijn van Exel > On Jul 6, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Mike N wrote: > > > On 7/6/2015 10:46 AM

Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

2015-07-07 Thread stevea
Martijn, thank you for this terrific contribution to improve OSM's rail infrastructure in the USA! BTW, while level_crossings display in its default/mapnik backdrop layer only when closely zoomed in, OSM rail data in OpenRailwayMap continue to grow nicely, especially with usage= tags (and to a

Re: [Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

2015-07-07 Thread Andrew Guertin
On 07/06/2015 10:46 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: (In particular I am never sure whether to use crossing or level_crossing.) My understanding is that railway=level_crossing is where cars cross a railway, and railway=crossing is where pedestrians cross. I'm not sure what to use where bikes cross