[Talk-us] New MapRoulette challenge - fix railway crossings

[Mike N]

Fantastic!   One question - it recommends to "skip" the task if you can 
see the X already.   But doesn't this place that challenge back on the 
queue where it will stay forever as long as people keep using 'skip'?


On 7/31/2015 6:42 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Partly inspired by Google making noise about saving lives by warning
> people about crossings (see for example
> http://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/fra-google-team-to-incorporate-rail-data-in-maps)
> I decided to take that same railroad crossings data from the Federal
> Railway Administration, massage it a bit and turn it into a
> MapRoulette challenge!
>
> Here it is: http://maproulette.org/#t=fix-railway-crossings
>
> I filtered out all 'historic' records in the original FRA file, but I
> did not cross check against existing OSM crossing tags. Even if you
> see a rendered crossing already, please do go in and check though - I
> find that sometimes the crossing node is actually not a shared node
> between the road and the railway.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Martijn van Exel
> skype: mvexel
>
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