[OSM-talk] barrier=gate

Alex Mauer hawke at hawkesnest.net
Mon Nov 10 17:49:02 GMT 2008


Dave Stubbs wrote:
> 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.

Leaving aside barrier=gate vs. highway=gate, there was not a wiki page
at Tag:highway=gate until the redirect was added.

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

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