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

[brad]

That's a router error.  There are many gates in the western US on tracks 
or unclassified roads.   The gates can be opened (if they are closed), & 
they should be left in the state you found them in. Most are there to 
keep livestock on one side or the other.
The road on one side or the other should have an access tag if it isn't 
accessible.
This particular case is clearly a router error.   The user was not using 
good judgment either, never trust a router.

On 4/25/22 17:05, Andy Townsend wrote:
> 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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