How to map checkpoints?

General talk
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There doesn’t seem to be any consensus on this, or at least I can’t find it in the wiki. Many times I wanted to map military or police checkpoints, particularly in Yemen and Thailand. How do I do this? Can it be done so they show up on the Garmin maps produced by Lambertus (http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php)?

Thanks,
Peter.

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You need to define a checkpoint in the ‘points’ file of a given style then create a checkpoint symbol in the corresponding typ file.
Have a look at:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mkgmap/help/Custom_styles

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Thanks, but what I meant is: how do I map this in OSM?

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The mkgmap default style translates nodes with barrier=border_control, which is used for some country borders. I don’t think it would be terribly wrong to use them for other checkpoints as well. There can be borders inside a country, say, around restricted areas.