On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 20:26:05 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Am 26. Februar 2012 09:45 schrieb Mike Valiant <[email protected]>: > > If the gate is a node on a way that passes through the gate then I would > > have thought barrier=gate and maxwidth=xxx on the node that is the > > gate would be more appropriate. It defines the maximum size of vehicle > > (person?) that could pass through the aperture. > > -1, maxwidth is part of the restrictions. Those are generally legal > restrictions, so they do not express who can actually pass through, > but who is still allowed to pass through. To tag the width of an > object use "width". > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxwidth > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:width
I concur. Also, if this tag was missing for the gate node you could infer the width of the gate if there was a width=* tag on the road passing through it. If you needed to. Best wishes, Andrew _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
