I will often map both the track through the gate & the path over the stile. It's usually a matter of judgement as to whether the line of the PRoW should go over the stile or through the gate. It's not unusual to find a moribund stile in such circumstances, which I map as a standalone node. Keeping all the information is, I think, useful. Landowners change usage, or ownership changes with accordingly different attitudes to PRoWs, so there's no guarantee that a route will go through the gate in a few years time.
As usual, don't worry about how it looks on Carto-CSS: they can't solve very rendering problem, and having both gate & stile visible is useful for people updating the data. Specialist use for walking could choose to omit the non-PRoW elements, or otherwise generalise the data (not widely done yet, but something which is generally needed as OSM becomes more detailed). Jerry On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 at 13:45, Martin Wynne <[email protected]> wrote: > Often in my travels I come across something like this: > > http://85a.uk/stile_gate2_1280x720.jpg > > http://85a.uk/stile_gate_1280x720.jpg > > Should this be mapped as a stile or a gate? Or both side by side? > > If the latter, which node should the way be connected to? > > It's a public right of way on foot, and walkers need to know that they > must climb a stile if the gate is locked. But if you "map what you see > on the ground" (which is the supposed golden rule), it is simply a track > passing through a gate. > > If I split the way in two, and have a short section of footpath passing > over a stile *and* a track passing through a gate, it looks daft on the > map, as if there is a Clapham Junction in the middle of a grassy field. > > And if I do that, is it essential to split out the short bit of the > track through the gate, from which the public right-of-way designation > (and ref number) is removed? > > thanks, > > Martin. > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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