Near to Littlewick Green there is an off-road section of Sustrans National Route NCN4 which has series of gates across it. They are plotted as nodes on the cycle path, tagged as "barrier=gate".
The map is here - http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.5088 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.5088&lon=-0.78743&zoom=16&layers=00B0F TF> &lon=-0.78743&zoom=16&layers=00B0FTF These are proper gates, on a wide path, that act as barriers to cars. However, they are not barriers to pedestrians or cyclists, who just walk or ride around them. Open Cycle Map routes through the gates. Gosmore doesn't - it shows a route that takes a long way round on proper roads (which is a bit strange on a national cycle path!) - here - http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/index.html?lat=51.49958 <http://nroets.dev.openstreetmap.org/demo/index.html?lat=51.49958&lon=-0.782 61&zoom=15&layers=B000FTFTT> &lon=-0.78261&zoom=15&layers=B000FTFTT Any thoughts on the best way to address this? My take is that one option would be to plot the little diversions that the cycle path takes around the gates, and mark them as part of the cycleway. Another approach would be to use some combination of tags that marks these as gates that are barriers to cars, but not to cycles or pedestrians. I'm inclined towards the first, since that would be the most accurate reflection of what is on the ground, but it does seem unnecessarily complicated. I am not sure what the best combination of tags for the second would be. I am aware that this kind of thing must have been discussed somewhere before now, so my apologies in advance if I am raising it unnecessarily. However, I have not been able to find any guidance, so a link to any guidance that exists would be a big help.
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