Hi, yesterday during our bikeride we stumbled upon a road which at the start said that it would turn into a dead end. The dead end was at the railroadcrossing and blocked by an extra fence. On the other side of the railroadtrack the same. As the fence was a bit open we passed.
But I can’t figure out how to mark that on the map.
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If you share the location on openstreetmap.org here as a link, we can assess the situation much better. Thank you very much!
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By “other traffic” I assume you mean vehicular traffic? I’d simply split the road at the crossing and convert the way into a highway=footway, footway=crossing and optionally draw a barrier=fence around the crossing with and the node between the ways and the fence should have a barrier=entrance.
Though depending on the current situation, the crossing might be officially closed in which case you should instead set the crossing way into access=no but keep the type as it is.
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Hi, thanx, I did the same, made 2 barriers and split the road in 3 parts. OpenStreetMap it’s the Mörthestrasse.
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FYI, I’ve made two small corrections, the first one being to connect the ways at the fence (since the access is a thing up to that point) and the other is to correct the barrier type (for starters, we use Englisch words i.e. it should have been barrier=fence and not barrier=hekomheining).
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If a fence blocks the road at the railway crossing, the railway operator closed the crossing completely. A gap in the fence does not mean that crossing the fence is permitted by the land owner/railway operator. This means, that even crossing the railway line by foot is illegal there. Please add at least access=no to the footway or remove it completely if all traces of the crossing are gone.
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Locale was somewhere set to Dutch. But thanx for modifying.
True, but looked like it was quite recent, or a bit longer but no-one noticed. So we indeed trespassed (probably quite illegaly but don’t mention it 
) the crossing. Weren’t the first as the fence was slightly open so that people could pass (probably not intended). Normally I wouldn’t do anything like that but was too lazy to figure out where we then could pass and follow our in Komoot created bikeroute.
Not all traces of the road are gone there yet. Maybe they will do that later. In the Netherlands unguarded crossings are being closed but this one looked a guarded crossing with barriers which were now in closed position. Maybe there was a good reason to completely close the crossing but that is probably something locals can/could tell.
I’d suggest changing highway=residential to disused:highway=residential for the closed portion. If there’s no access for any transport mode, then it’s not really a road any more and the disused lifecycle prefix seems apt.
Also, what is status=incomplete? Could it be removed?
Aha. Thanx. Dunno why it says status=incomplete. Maybe because I asked for a review?
Nah, it’s more because it always was tagged that way. Asking for reviews don’t add tags on elements you modify.
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