Re: [OSM-talk] European border control points - could use some help mapping

sent from a phone > Am 05.10.2015 um 19:15 schrieb Rafael Avila Coya : > > > Apart from that, several bridges have been constructed, with no border > control facilities at all, one of them just meters down the river from > the old one [2]. Should we tag those crossings

Re: [OSM-talk] European border control points - could use some help mapping

sent from a phone > Am 05.10.2015 um 17:13 schrieb Rafael Avila Coya : > > And those that are mapped should be wrong. Unless > we want to mark the border controls that are physically there, but > aren't being used. We should use a different tag for that, or qualify > the

Re: [OSM-talk] European border control points - could use some help mapping

Hi, Blake: Just a question. Many countries in Europe are part of the Schengen agreement, so there is no passport nor id control of any kind at borders. That's why you don't find almost any border control nodes between Spain and Portugal or France, for example. And those that are mapped should be

[OSM-talk] European border control points - could use some help mapping

Hi all, OSM could really use more barrier=border_control nodes mapped in Europe both western and eastern. Some countries are pretty good, but some are really missing most if not all of their border crossing points mapped. I am not sure this is something that is really good for armchair

Re: [OSM-talk] European border control points - could use some help mapping

Hi Rafael, Ya, that is interesting Rafael. For sure if there is no border control facility, staffed or unstaffed, I wouldn't map anything there if there is nothing related to that. I was mostly thinking of the place where a facility or structure exists still, staffed or unstaffed, the

Re: [OSM-talk] European border control points - could use some help mapping

My experience is that the border control points still exist, they are just not always staffed. Traffic still has to pass through them, just there may or may not be anyone in the booths. That is why I don't think it is wrong to mark them as barrier=border_control points, they still are

Re: [OSM-talk] European border control points - could use some help mapping

Hi, Blake: I agree that border controls in the areas affected by the ongoing refugee crisis that were disused until recently but are active again, should be tagged accordingly. What I mean is that in other areas like Spain with Portugal, those borders aren't staffed at all, any time. I live just