[OSM-talk] barrier=gate

[Ed Loach]

Richard asked:

> Isn't the point of a gate that you can open it?
> 
> i.e. traffic is allowed through, but for routing purposes
> there's a
> time penalty.

I wouldn't have said so. The point of tagging is a gate is to show
there is a gate across a way. Examples I've seen so far include a
gate beyond which is a service road for a supermarket (so
permissions for the service road are down to who the keyholder is,
gates across footpaths (which can be opened), gates into fields (so
the landowner has the key) and similar. There are lots of reasons
for gates, but it's been a long, long time since I saw one across a
road (I was in Scotland IIRC) which is like that you describe above.


Ed