The Lake District National Park instructions to footpath surveyors
recommends:
"Where there are two items of furniture for the same crossing (for
example, a gate and a stile alongside each other), then it is the one
highest up the hierarchy .. or the one definitely on the definitive
line, that is the most important."
The gate is higher in their hierarchy than the stile, and thus would
normally be considered to be the one on the PROW where there is doubt
about the definitive line.
Roger
On 22/04/2019 13:43, Martin Wynne 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.
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