Barrier=gate/lift_gate: foot and bicycle access, how to map low "level of comfort" of legal access

[Jarek]

@lankapuhelin

My question is this: how exactly should you map foot= and bicycle= values? I feel bicycle=yes would imply that you can ride through/under the gate without dismounting, but in my example that would not be possible, you would have to dismount at least, and possibly tilt your bike down and crouch to get past under the barrier. I also feel foot=yes would imply unimpended access but that is not exactly true, you would have to crouch or squeeze by at the tip.

As far as I know there isn’t a currently accepted or widely-used way to tag/map this.

Everyone is free to come up with tags that they feel are appropriate, so you could tag it as something like foot=yes_if_you_crouch but there would be no support from routers.

You could attempt to approximate it with tags like maxwidth:physical=* as specified for Tag:barrier=cycle_barrier - OpenStreetMap Wiki. opening=* as described on that page is another option, but probably less widely understood.

An unorthodox option could be Tag:barrier=height_restrictor - OpenStreetMap Wiki with maxheight=1 m or so, but I doubt foot and bicycle routers look at maxheight tags, and this barrier isn’t really a height restrictor.

wheelchair=no and an appropriate wheelchair:description=* are an option since wheelchair:description is fairly widely used.

Personally I would tag this as barrier=lift_gate, motor_vehicle=private (or other value as appropriate), and a human-readable description=* describing foot/bicycle access possibilities.