[Tagging] barrier=kerb + kerb=lowered

[Daniel Koć]

W dniu 07.06.2021 o 16:50, Florian Lohoff pisze:
> The point is that a lot of software assumes barrier=* to be impassable
> as long as there are not other positive modality tags on it like
> bicycle/foot etc. Which IMHO would be a perfect abstraction. A software
> which only want navigation only needs to check for barrier=something
> and then check modality. But instead we already overloaded
> barrier=bollard etc with implicit modality tags, and with barrier=kerb 
> we overloaded it again with kerb=* tags.

"Impassable" is just a generalization, the reality might be more
complex. Consider subway gates - passable for sure (some can even jump
over it), but still it's a barrier.

So is kerb - it makes it hard to let vehicles get into the pedestrian
zone, but pretty easy for pedestrians to cross it. However typical kerb
is also a barrier for people with/on chairs:

https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/smashing-barriers-access-disability-activism-and-curb-cuts

Even if it's lowered, it can still be a barrier for wheels when water
channel is located there.

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