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There is an old dual-carriage way road near where I live that is about 1 mile long. This road is unused and is blocked by a swing barrier and mounds of earth by the council and so cannot be used and it has not been possible to access it for many years, now there are mounds of earth and plants growing over the road. This road is on the OpenStreetMap, I want to mark it as blocked in some way. I added a "blocked: yes" tag which I made up, is there a better way? I have marked the location as the location of this entry.
Discussion
Comment from Koniosis on 3 June 2010 at 21:58
Ok I think I have found the correct way: access=* I set access to "no" and foot to "yes"
Comment from Koniosis on 3 June 2010 at 22:02
I also added a walking gate to the end of the road, there doesn't appear to be a way to add a blockade or gate for a 'car' preset?
Comment from Sundance on 4 June 2010 at 00:36
Koniosis, I ran into something similar on the Yosemite Highway 140, a landslide covered the road and it is "temporarily" rerouted to the other side of the river (its been 3 years now)...
osm.org/?lat=37.65737&lon=-119.89782&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF
In this case it is metal chain link fence with gates, so in my case this was applicable.
barrier=gate
In your case this might be the closest for the mounds
barrier=block
Comment from LivingWithDragons on 4 June 2010 at 16:10
I see in sundance's example construction=secondary, although technically this is inappropriate if there are no plans to restore it.
I would think adding disused=yes but this won't change the rendering, indeed the wiki page even doesn't include roads in the list of items it applies to(perhaps it highway should be added though) disused=*
For where it is blocked, perhaps barrier=bollard in place of any other recognised value. barrier=*
For reference, barrier=gate can apply to nodes on footway/paths or any highways, but it suggests someone has a key to open it (or it is unlocked but kept closed).
Access=no is a good idea too.
Comment from Sundance on 7 June 2010 at 04:17
Oh I hope there are plans to restore the roadway, I can't imagine the Bailey bridges lasting forever. But the state of California has some severe budget issues so it might not be very high on the state's budget process to remove quite a few tons of rock then put up some huge concrete retaining wall to prevent similar slides in the future. I'd debating on the construction part myself, maybe access=no or access=private might be more appropriate.
I did update it to disused=yes, access=no, but I do hope Caltrans gets off their butts and restore one of the key access points to most beautiful spot in the world (to me) Yosemite National Park.