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

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Apr 26, 2022, 00:59 by graemefitz1 at gmail.com:

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> On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 05:23, Mark Wagner <> mark+osm at carnildo.com <mailto:mark%2Bosm at carnildo.com>> > wrote:
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>> between the first and second gates
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> 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?
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If I would make a router, then avoiding gates with unclear status seems like a 
good idea.

It may depend on location, for example in Poland barrier=gate on road would be
often impassable barrier (except for the owner).

And such tagging with barrier=gate with no access tags and roads marked as
accessible for cars on both sides would be a typically tagging error - with
road actually not passable for cars in general on at least one side

Explicit access=yes / access=no seems a good idea to me for barrier=gate on
public roads, where gate is not having just access=private roads on one side
anyway.
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