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 border control points,
just not staffed regularly or the control is very permissive.
Which could change until the place is dismantled and made into something
else or the border no longer exists.
Also, more and more border control points that were not actively staffed
are being staffed now due to the refugee crisis.
I guess if you knew they were not being used, even as a funnel for
traffic, like they were bypassed totally, you could add disused=yes to them.
Cheers
blake
On 10/5/2015 5:13 PM, Rafael Avila Coya wrote:
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)
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