[OSM-newbies] Fence in middle of street

[Dave F.]

Alan Mintz wrote:
> I've a street with a fence across it, disallowing any access across it. Is 
> it sufficient to draw the fence as a way tagged barrier=fence and have it 
> intersect the road way at a node?

Sounds good to me.

>  Does the node have to be tagged in some 
> way?

No. If you do that it'll imply there's two fences at that point.
Imagine if the fence way was another road, say a motorway, you wouldn't 
tag the node at the intersection with your street as 'motorway' so 
there's no real need for it in this case.
> Or should I break the road way into two dead-end sections that do not 
> intersect the fence?
>   

If the road is continuous in the real world, map it as continuous in OSM

> The terse comments on the wiki page are very non-specific and confusing to me.
>   

You're not alone.

Cheers
Dave F.