<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>Jerry</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 at 13:45, Martin Wynne <<a href="mailto:martin@templot.com">martin@templot.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">Often in my travels I come across something like this:<br>
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<a href="http://85a.uk/stile_gate2_1280x720.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://85a.uk/stile_gate2_1280x720.jpg</a><br>
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<a href="http://85a.uk/stile_gate_1280x720.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://85a.uk/stile_gate_1280x720.jpg</a><br>
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Should this be mapped as a stile or a gate? Or both side by side?<br>
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If the latter, which node should the way be connected to?<br>
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It's a public right of way on foot, and walkers need to know that they <br>
must climb a stile if the gate is locked. But if you "map what you see <br>
on the ground" (which is the supposed golden rule), it is simply a track <br>
passing through a gate.<br>
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If I split the way in two, and have a short section of footpath passing <br>
over a stile *and* a track passing through a gate, it looks daft on the <br>
map, as if there is a Clapham Junction in the middle of a grassy field.<br>
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And if I do that, is it essential to split out the short bit of the <br>
track through the gate, from which the public right-of-way designation <br>
(and ref number) is removed?<br>
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thanks,<br>
<br>
Martin.<br>
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