[OSM-talk] Barrier=block areas

[Warin]

On 24/08/18 03:49, Philip Barnes wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-08-17 at 07:51 +1000, Warin wrote:
>> If the thought is to map a group of blocks as an area .. then my vote 
>> is no at least without more information.
>> It raises the question as to what the level of obstruction is - are 
>> motorcycles bared by this barrier? Horses? How badly are pedestrians 
>> impeded? What about people in wheelchairs?
>> So there needs to be a scale of impediment.
>>
> Thinking a bit more, the block effectively is creating a width 
> restriction so maybe map the paths between them along with any signed 
> access restrictions and add a width tag to indicate how wide the gap is?
>
> Am thinking of signed restrictions as many bollarded cycleways have a 
> no motor vehicle restriction to prohibit motorcycles that would 
> otherwise be able to path through the gaps.

+1
There are also restrictions in gates - some are rather small.
As OSM has max:height then that suggest the use of max:width to state 
these width restrictions?