[OSM-talk] barrier=gate

[graham]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Certainly there are oodles of "gated roads" in rural Britain where  
> this applies - there's one on my stretch of NCN. :)
> 
There's quite a few round my area on residential streets designed to let 
the emergency services pass, but permanently closed otherwise.
I've just mapped them as 'highway=gate' for now, thinking of them as 
physical objects.. I hope any change to 'barrier=gate' doesn't 
automatically imply additional semantics.

Graham