[Talk-us] Gated communities

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Mar 21, 2019, 4:11 PM by kevin.b.kenny at gmail.com:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 3:01 AM Mateusz Konieczny
> <> matkoniecz at tutanota.com <mailto:matkoniecz at tutanota.com>> > wrote:
>
>> For start, "residents only" gate is for me clearly access=private.
>>
>> "manned main gate" - is access strongly restricted?
>> If nearly everybody, including vehicles, is let in I would tag it access=yes.
>> It would also mean that access=destination would be better than access=private
>> for inner ways of community.
>>
>> If access is strongly filtered (entrance requires permission from resident or
>> guard is likely to resuse) then I would tag both gates access=private.
>> Though it means that these gates are again not distinguishable.
>>
>
> In practice, for the gated communities that I'm familiar with, there's
> not that significant a difference between access=destination and
> access=private at the main gate from this standpoint. If you have
> business in the community - pretty much equivalent to 'your
> destination is inside the community' - you're extremely likely to have
> the permission of a resident or business owner inside the gates.
> Nevertheless,  if you're not a resident with a key card, you're not
> going to get through the automated gates. So access=destination for
> the main gate is in theory no more permissive than access=private, but
> gives a router a strong indication that "here is the correct entrance
> for visitors."
>
> I agree that access=destination is also better than access=private for
> roads inside the gate that are usable by visitors. (access=private is
> appropriate for service ways that lead to residents-only parking and
> similar things.)
>
AFAIK access=destination is not limited to "I have permission from someone
within", it also covers things like "I want to leave promotional leaflets", or
"I want to walk around".

It is rather for "no thru traffic" / "local traffic only" than "with permission only".

Though I have no idea how to distinguish
"with permission only, you are likely to get it if you have a good reason"
and
"with permission only, to get it you need to be an owner of a flat"

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