Hi WanMil,
I think we should reimplement the --link-pois-to-ways option. Maybe the following algorithm would work: Before the removeShortArcs removal check all POIs and create a list which ways need to be changed due to the POIs and at which point (Coord and/or distance from start/end point). After the removeShortArcs option apply the changes. Due to the information stored in the list before the removeShortArcs option it should be possible to ensure that changes are applied only to correct ways and not to coord merged ways.
I saw that you finally used the patch. Did you change your opinion?
No, but using the patch is better than using it not :-) You wrote: "The irony is that *many* of the small ways are tagged as footways, so the bollards or barriers should be IMHO ignored reg. routing." So your patch is a workaround which fixes many problems (great!) but which is not a general solution. So later on we should rethink the --link-pois-to-ways option to find a general solution. WanMil
Gerd