<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Charlotte Wolter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlady@techlady.com" target="_blank">techlady@techlady.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Matijn,<br><br>
<u></u> <u></u>By the
way, what is the difference between "crossing" and
"level_crossing"?<br><div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I treat highway=crossing the same as railway=crossing. That would be a place where a horse, bike, skateboard, foot path, etc. would cross the railway. I also apply all the related highway=crossing tags to the railway=crossing nodes. I've used this mostly around light rail crossings.</div><div><br></div><div>There are also additional tags that could be added to a "level crossing": "<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">A</span> level crossing <span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:22.3999996185303px">(where a road crosses a railway, usually with a gate and big flashing traffic light)".</span></div><div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dlevel_crossing">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dlevel_crossing</a><br></div><div>That would require additional tasks to survey the crossings. Adding the crossings would be a good first step for a survey phase. Armchair mapping any survey mapping can coexist!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div class="h5"><br>
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At 03:30 PM 7/7/2015, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Hey Mike —<br><br>
Crossings already present in OSM will not be excluded, but can be easily
skipped over. In most cases you can see them on the rendered map tiles so
no need for a round trip to the editor.<br><br>
Martijn van Exel<br></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I see the why Martijn would be hard pressed to exclude crossings that are already in the OSM. He's using the Federal Railway Administration, FRA, data as a punch list in this challenge. Perhaps you can add additional features to a crossing in this challenge, if you know that bells and whistles exist at a crossing.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Greg</div></div>