[OSM-talk] barrier=gate

[Dave Stubbs]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> According to the wiki redirects, barrier=gate is replacing highway=gate.
> According to tagwatch, the latter is 10 times more popular than the former.

Yes, because the barrier=gate people decided it makes more sense. I'm
not sure a wiki redirect is the correct way of going about it... but
they're essentially the same thing. Obviously highway=gate has been
around much longer.

>
> Is the community OK with this ?

Meh.

> If yes, why aren't we running a bot to perform the changes ?

Because that would imply the One True Way is to tag gates with
barrier=gate. Because it would break every existing gate out there
relying on a "legacy" renderer. To get 1/10th already suggest to me
shenanigans though.
It's not completely impossible to have two tags for the same thing you
know. Just leave it be.

Dave