Hi Dale,
Dale Kunce schrieb 2016-01-23 03:17:
The Red Cross is continuing our work on mapping the border areas of the Ebola
affected countries in West Africa. Today something that came up is how exactly
to tag border crossings. These are vital for humanitarian and epidemiology.
There is a barrier=border_control
<https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/barrier=border_control#map> tag but
from my reading of the wiki
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dborder_control> it doesn't
apply to places where there is no fence. Often the borders in West Africa are
a river ferry with an office set back some distance away.
I wanted to see people thoughts about the best way forward to track these
features while still working within OSM conventions.
I interpret the wiki so that the tag refers to the checkpoint on a way which
crosses a border. I do not see that it has to be part of a border line. In
practice most checkpoints will not be on the border line proper but rather
inside a country's territory. So I would apply the tag on the position of the
way where the control takes places, typically one location on either side of the
border.
/Michael
(osm:michael63) /
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