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

[John Smith]

On 22 September 2010 02:38, Peter Wendorff <wendorff at uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
> I would say, it's NOT an error to not map the access tags itself - sometimes
> the mapper don't know this facts - as mentioned in this thread before.
> But I totally agree, that it's a mandatory tag to be sure at usage, so it
> should be displayed as error in error tracking software (keep right etc.),
> and mentioned as a warning (or kind of soft error) in editor software (like
> the josm validator).

I've been doing what others do, tagging the access on the other side
of the barrier, not the barrier itself, and a missing access tag
usually means there is no access limitations.