[Talk-us] Railway crossing challenge for MapRoulette

[Russ Nelson]

Mike N writes:
 > On 7/8/2015 2:43 PM, Greg Morgan wrote:
 > > 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.
 > 
 >    I was thinking of NY State for example, where all crossings already 
 > exist in OSM.  Those would just be empty tasks.   Since they're all 
 > points, it should be easy to do a pre-conflation to exclude existing 
 > matches.
 > 
 >   But I haven't looked at FRA data - perhaps it doesn't include GPS 
 > location?

It includes everything but 1) the kitchen sink, and 2) whether the
railroad has been abandoned already. :-) The majority of the crossings
that I looked at were for driveway or farm crossings. I added the ones
that look like they still existed, with blocking in the gauge and/or
wheel tracks going up to the crossing.

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