[OSM-newbies] Fence in middle of street

[Steve Bennett]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Charlotte Wolter <techlady at techlady.com> wrote:
> In the western US, on small rural tracks, often there is a fence across a
> road with a gate in it. (That gate may not be visible on aerial photos.)
> The gate usually is not locked, and you gain acess by opening the gate and
> walking or driving through it. The rule is: If the gate was open, leave it
> open. If it was closed, leave it closed. I don't know if that is what you
> encountered or where you are mapping, but I have encountered this many times
> in the rural US west.

That's just a gate. Here we're talking (I believe) about a road that
has been permanently cut in half.

Speaking for myself:
1) If there's a road with a gate you can drive through, just put
barrier=gate on the node.
2) If there's a road with a gate that you can walk through, split the
road, make a section of highway=footway, and place a barrier=gate on
that way.
3) If there's a fence and no way to get through, completely split the
road, and put a barrier=fence on a separate way that passes through
the gap.

Steve