Re: [Talk-us] How to tag US/CA border crossing telephones?

Wow, didn't think there was any of these left, though I'm aware of a similar situation in Victoria where my last visit (pre-9/11) was greeted with a sign on the top of the Government Street pier that said we needed to call 1-800-CAN-PASS. A customs officer ran down the street from one of the

[Talk-us] User yapple seems to have made some bad edits and then gone away

http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/yapple/history All are commented as Testing. Do not take it seriously... /Stellan ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] User yapple seems to have made some bad edits and then gone away

I would try 1) adding a comment to the changeset first, saying something like: 'at OpenStreetMap we love to have fun but we take mappping very seriously. Please head over to Opengeofiction if you want to draw fictional maps or use dev.osm.org for playing around.' 2) DMing the user with a similar

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

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Matijn, By the way, what is the difference between crossing and level_crossing? I treat highway=crossing the same as railway=crossing. That would be a place where a horse, bike, skateboard, foot path,

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

On Wednesday, July 08, 2015 11:43:50 AM Greg Morgan wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Charlotte Wolter techl...@techlady.com wrote: Matijn, By the way, what is the difference between crossing and level_crossing? I treat highway=crossing the same as

Re: [Talk-us] How to tag US/CA border crossing telephones?

Nate Wessel writes: I'm not sure if these are common enough to warrant their own tagging scheme, but the US/Canada have these little video phones posted around marinas on the great lakes(at least). The idea is that people crossing the border by boat will call in with the phone and show the

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

Great Topic, Interesting that I have been doing my own research into this data set. I can tell you without a doubt that some of the information is way out of date or wrong. (http://fragis.frasafety.net/GISFRASafety/) It is my understanding that railroads are supposed to report data like this

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

On 7/8/2015 2:43 PM, Greg Morgan wrote: I see the why Martijn would be hard pressed to exclude crossings that are already in the OSM. He's using the Federal Railway Administration, FRA, data as a punch list in this challenge. Perhaps you can add additional features to a crossing in this