[OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers

[Cartinus]

On Sunday 19 September 2010 16:33:07 Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Nic Roets wrote:
> > This is because a gate with no access tags
> > implies that nothing can go through.
>
> Where on earth do you get that idea from?
>
> barrier=gate states that there's a gate. The thing about gates, as opposed
> to (say) walls, is that you can open them to get through.

It's a barrier. Most of the time it's there to keep people out and let only 
some people through.

I always tag gates with the assumption that I don't have to tag who they keep 
out, but only who they let through.

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus