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    <p>Material is useful particularly in urban situations. A steel
      squeezer designed to prevent motorcyclists is likely to be there
      several years after installation, whereas a wooden one will likely
      have been destroyed to allow access. Those metal squeezers are
      also difficult to navigate with a bicycle and tall people and
      those with bulky rucsac's.</p>
    <p>Regards</p>
    <p>Tony<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/06/2021 22:53, Paul Berry wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">> I'd say it's as useful/interesting as many of
        the tags in osm and may as well be added by people who want to. 
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        <div>Good point. I tend to add as much detail, as I've either
          recorded or can remember later, as there are tags for stiles
          (as with any other object in OSM that comes in various forms).
          Two reasons for this:</div>
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            <li>I want to get as much information captured in one pass
              as I can.</li>
            <li>I never know how useful the information could be to
              someone else. For instance, imagine if someone wanted to
              plot the distribution of stile types and materials right
              across the UK...</li>
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          <div>Happy mapping, everyone.</div>
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        <div>Regards,</div>
        <div><i>Paul</i></div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 22:01,
          Tom Crocker <<a href="mailto:tomcrockermail@gmail.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true">tomcrockermail@gmail.com</a>>
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 28 Jun 2021,
                  16:34 Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB, <<a
                    href="mailto:talk-gb@openstreetmap.org"
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                    <div dir="auto"><a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dstile#Stile_type"
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                      claims<br>
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                    <div dir="auto">"Where possible, the stile should be
                      tagged with material=* with values stone, wood, or
                      metal."<br>
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                    <div dir="auto">But is it actually useful? Based on
                      photos it seems that basically all stiles within<br>
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                    <div dir="auto">walls are mostly material=stone and
                      ones with fences typically wooden,<br>
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                    <div dir="auto">with ladder stiles made of wood.</div>
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            <div dir="auto">It's not very unusual for stiles to be added
              where the wall or (more so) fence exists but isn't in the
              database. There's also dry stone walls in various states
              of disrepair that are more likely to be in the database
              than the fence that's been added alongside with a wooden
              stepover. You also find metal stepovers.</div>
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            <div dir="auto">I'd say it's as useful/interesting as many
              of the tags in osm and may as well be added by people who
              want to. </div>
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            <div dir="auto">I'd be interested in others thoughts on
              multi-material stiles though.</div>
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            <div dir="auto">Tom</div>
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