2009/1/5 Bob Jonkman <[email protected]>: > 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.
Depends whether you're on a bike or not at the time :-) Anyway, it's as much of a barrier as a gate, which isn't a barrier at all if it happens to be open. And a four foot wall isn't much of a barrier either as you can pretty much step over them. Dave _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
