[Tagging] Meaning of access=yes on highway=footway?

[Andy Townsend]

On 25/04/2022 23:59, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> On the subject of gates & access, we had a Note 
> (https://www.openstreetmap.org/note/3148597) 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?
>
Yes.  Some routers avoid all gates (even some cycle routers).  It helps 
to find out which broken router is the problem in any particular case.

Best Regards,

Andy

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