[OSM-talk] European border control points - could use some help mapping

[Blake Girardot]

Hi all,

OSM could really use more barrier=border_control nodes mapped in Europe 
both western and eastern. Some countries are pretty good, but some are 
really missing most if not all of their border crossing points mapped.

I am not sure this is something that is really good for armchair mappers 
like myself so I was really hoping we all might map a few we have 
personal experience with or knowledge of and see if we can't make a dent 
in the missing points.

Here is a map of how the border_control nodes looked a few days ago in OSM:

http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/europe-border-control-points-osm-data_54784#6/48.480/21.160

How to map these points (and it is only applicable to single nodes) is here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dborder_control

I don't think it matters if the barrier is blocking the crossing or not 
as long as there is a border control point there.

Please feel free to forward this to the appropriate country specific 
email lists if you think that would help us get a more complete map of 
these points.

Cheers,
Blake (bgirardot)