On 2 Jan 2009 at 21:22, Dave Stubbs wrote: >The tag was always highway=stile. There's thousands in existence. It >works perfectly well. There was a wiki discussion where barriers were >thought about and the people on that discussion decided to rename >stiles as barrier=stile to make it more consistent. There's no >compulsion for anybody to agree with this, and also there's no reason >we can't use both.
Isn't a stile the two-sided ladder that goes over a fence? If so, a stile isn't a barrier, it establishes a way over a barrier, eg. a continuation of a footpath. So, my choice would be for highway=stile layer=1 Sadly, I think that horse has left the barn[*]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Approved_features/barriers http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dstile http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/barriers#Fords:_really_a_barrier.3F There are a couple of stiles in my neighbourhood; unfortunately I didn't think to note them when I was mapping there. --Bob. [*]: "That horse has left the barn" is a colloquialism for "That discussion is over" (for the non-native-English speakers on the list) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
