[OSM-talk] routing across open spaces

[Anthony]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 15:30 +0000, Ed Avis wrote:
>> As a rough rule, leisure=park and landuse=grass could be considered walkable,
>> unless tagged access=no or access=private.
>
> You may also find timed access restrictions apply.  Some parks here for
> example, are gated off at night, which again may affect vehicle/bicycle
> traffic but not foot traffic, or it may affect everything.

Fortunately, there are tags for all of this:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Access#Transport_mode_restrictions
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Access#Access_time_restrictions
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Barrier