Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-25 Thread stevea
Richard Welty writes (jests?!): i better get over to Huck Finn's Playland then and map my train ride: http://www.hucksplayland.com/images/carousel/3.jpg Yup: http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dminiature is the way to do this! Taginfo shows over 3500 of these in OSM, located in every

Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread Richard Welty
On 2/24/16 4:52 PM, stevea wrote: > I don't know how to promote this any better than to say this here and > hope it makes its way into local chapters' mind-space. I'd like to > begin a campaign to encourage OSM volunteers to: > > Map Your Train Ride! > i better get over to Huck Finn's Playland

Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread Rihards
On 2016.02.25. 03:41, stevea wrote: Thank you to Rihards who clarified that adding highway=footway to a public_transport=platform only makes sense when it is connected to another way containing a highway=* tag. Otherwise, this doesn't make sense, as the platform acting as a

Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread stevea
Thank you to Rihards who clarified that adding highway=footway to a public_transport=platform only makes sense when it is connected to another way containing a highway=* tag. Otherwise, this doesn't make sense, as the platform acting as a footway "floats" and can break some

Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread Rihards
On 2016.02.24. 23:52, stevea wrote: I don't know how to promote this any better than to say this here and hope it makes its way into local chapters' mind-space. I'd like to begin a campaign to encourage OSM volunteers to: Map Your Train Ride! Add public_transport=platforms to the map and/or

Re: [Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread Martijn van Exel
Steve -- Can MapRoulette help here? I already started a railroad crossing challenge a while ago (http://maproulette.org/#t=fix-railway-crossings/262063C) which a lot of people like (and have worked on). If we can entice people to add railway station detail in places with known train stations

[Talk-us] Map Your Train Ride!

2016-02-24 Thread stevea
I don't know how to promote this any better than to say this here and hope it makes its way into local chapters' mind-space. I'd like to begin a campaign to encourage OSM volunteers to: Map Your Train Ride! Add public_transport=platforms to the map and/or route=train relation of your