Hi, Cartinus wrote:
I always tag gates with the assumption that I don't have to tag who they keep out, but only who they let through.
Fair enough, but still I think it is far-fetched to assume that an un-tagged gate will be closed to all.
When I map and I see a gate that is open but of which I cannot determine if, or when, it might not be so, I still tag it as a gate. I don't have more information - just that there is a gate and that it was open to traffic on a certain date and time. Now a conservative routing engine could of course say: If there's a gate and we don't know whether it'll be open, we assume it is closed. That's ok if the user is made aware of that, and it certainly is a decision for the routing engine to make.
You cannot make the mapper responsible for deciding whether or not a car, or bicycle, routing can go through a barrier; he might not know. Treating all un-tagged gates as access=no will lead to mappers entering bogus access tags (or not adding the gate at all) in such cases. This is hardly desirable.
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