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

[Claudius]

Am 20.09.2010 12:33, Elizabeth Dodd:
> The point is that tags should only accommodate one piece of information.
> A gate is a gate, access is something else.

Completely true. If a way has restricted access (and that may be 
physically enforced by the used of a closed gate) I tag the access 
restriction on the way behind the gate and not the gate. I don't see any 
added benefit by adding the access to a way behind a gate to the gate 
(!) itself.

Claudius