I guess what we are trying to get out of this, is:
a) as a router, can i feel free to route "Joe Public" through here?
b) as a router, how much time penalty should i factor in for passing
this gate?
Anything else?
On 2019-07-26 12:58, Warin wrote:
> To bring a little international perspective to this.
>
> In outback Australia the convention is "leave the gate as you found it".
> Unfortunately there are some who don't.
> To cope with this problem some gates are hung so that they close under
> gravity.
> To keep these open the farmer locks the gate open. Few people stop and try to
> close the gate, and are defeated by the lock anyway.
>
> So indicating that a gate is locked .. says little as to if it is open or
> closed to me.
>
> I think the 2 conditions need to be separated and not assumed;
>
> locked = yes/no
>
> closed = yes/no
> Not certain how to handle automatic - I think they are mostly automatically
> closing only, some do both closing and opening and there is the possibility
> of automatically opening only. Err some may have automatic lock features
> too...
>
> In addition some gates are fastened, but can be manually opened if you figure
> out the mechanism (some are quite inventive!). A problem I have found is on
> re-fastening these inventive mechanisms .. can take some time to remember it
> or reinvent it. Perhaps these should be called 'locked' and the above
> 'key_locked'???
>
> On 26/07/19 20:26, Gareth L wrote:
>
>> This was discussed on the wiki
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:barrier%3Dgate [1] with the
>> suggestion of using a status tag. And was also discussed (9 years ago?!)
>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2010-May/thread.html [2]
>>
>> Tagging things as access=private does impact routing a lot, so I'd evaluate
>> that use carefully.
>>
>> Gareth
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> FROM: Andy Robinson <ajrli...@gmail.com>
>> SENT: Friday, July 26, 2019 10:55:37 AM
>> TO: 'Stephen Colebourne' <scolebou...@joda.org>; 'talk-gb OSM List'
>> <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org>
>> SUBJECT: Re: [Talk-GB] Gates open/closed by default
>>
>> If a gate opens automatically I would say it's an access=yes regardless of
>> how the way is tagged.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Andy
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:scolebou...@joda.org]
>> Sent: 26 July 2019 10:47
>> To: talk-gb OSM List
>> Subject: [Talk-GB] Gates open/closed by default
>>
>> I'd like to distinguish between two kinds of gate on private roads:
>>
>> - those where the gate is closed by default (eg automatic closing)
>> - those where the gate is open by default (the gate exists, but is
>> rarely if ever closed)
>>
>> Currently I'm marking both as barrier=gate & access=private, but I
>> can't see an obvoius way to mark the open/closed by default aspect.
>> One thought was to use access=permissive on those that are open (with
>> the highway still access=private).
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Stephen
>> PS, I do want to mark the gate on the map even if it is always open
>>
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