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 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 barrier key with a border_control=* new tag, or something similar. Cheers, Rafael. On 05/10/15 16:53, Blake Girardot wrote: > 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 mappers > like myself so I was really hoping we all might map a few we have > personal experience with or knowledge of and see if we can't make a dent > in the missing points. > > Here is a map of how the border_control nodes looked a few days ago in OSM: > > http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/europe-border-control-points-osm-data_54784#6/48.480/21.160 > > > How to map these points (and it is only applicable to single nodes) is > here: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dborder_control > > I don't think it matters if the barrier is blocking the crossing or not > as long as there is a border control point there. > > Please feel free to forward this to the appropriate country specific > email lists if you think that would help us get a more complete map of > these points. > > Cheers, > Blake (bgirardot) > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Twitter: @ravilacoya <http://twitter.com/ravilacoya> *Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)* <http://www.hotosm.org> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
