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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Apr 26, 2022, 00:59 by graemefitz1@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div class=""><div class="" dir="ltr">On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 05:23, Mark Wagner <<a href="mailto:mark%2Bosm@carnildo.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mark+osm@carnildo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="">between the first and second gates<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>On the subject of gates & access, we had a Note (<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3148597" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3148597</a>) that somebody complained that their router told them to use a different road, apparently because this one had a gate on it? But the gate didn't include anything about access=no / private, locked=yes or anything similar, it's just tagged as a gate on an unclassified road? It's now been tagged as access=yes to resolve this, but we assume it's a router error?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">If I would make a router, then avoiding gates with unclear status seems like a <br></div><div dir="auto">good idea.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It may depend on location, for example in Poland barrier=gate on road would be<br></div><div dir="auto">often impassable barrier (except for the owner).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And such tagging with barrier=gate with no access tags and roads marked as<br></div><div dir="auto">accessible for cars on both sides would be a typically tagging error - with<br></div><div dir="auto">road actually not passable for cars in general on at least one side<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Explicit access=yes / access=no seems a good idea to me for barrier=gate on<br></div><div dir="auto">public roads, where gate is not having just access=private roads on one side<br></div><div dir="auto">anyway.<br></div> </body>
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