It certainly helped speed things up the last time! What I remember is prizes get a little messy to organize if you allow non-US participants to enter. Other than that all you need is commitment from a company. Perhaps an Amtrak gift card! Martijn van Exel skype: mvexel
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Clifford Snow <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Martijn van Exel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I didn't want to make the instructions too convoluted. We can always >> go back in and manually check for these 'unjoined crossings'. I am >> just mentioning it here because there's a lot of more experienced >> mappers here. > > > The instructions are fine. Most of what I've found are false positives and > crossings that need railway=level_crossing. Most that needed the > level_crossing are unconnected although not all. A few were missing the > street/footway/track and some are now bridges. > > We still need to do a lot of work on streets in rural areas. I've ended up > fixing a few in order to add the crossing. > > Would be nice if a company were to offer some "prize" for getting this > completed. Union Pacific is pushing for rail crossing safety. We should > consider approaching UP and BN for some incentives for getting people to map > crossings. Martijn, you have more experience with offering prizes, what is > your take? > > > -- > @osm_seattle > osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
