[OSM-newbies] Highway=stile vs Barrier=stile

[xeen]

Never tag for the renders.
barrier=stile is the correct one, and sooner or later Osmarender and
Mapnik will catch up. JOSM shows this "error icon" because it deems
highway=xyz to be a way or at least have some extent (i.e. highways
can't be nodes).
Unless the stile is like 10m long, it doesn't make sense to draw it as
a way – and it would conflict with the classification of the road. So,
if you desperately want that icon in Osmarender, add both tags; if you
want to tag correctly, use only barrier=stile and wait for the renders
to catch up. Oh, and the "error icon" goes away because JOSM can't
draw icons next to each other, so it simply get's hidden. (i.e. you're
not actually fixing the error JOSM reports).

Hope that helps.
Greetings
xeen

On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:47, Mike Harris <mikh43 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am slightly puzzled by what seems to me to be a tagging anomaly. I
> understand from the wiki that there was a tag "highway=stile" and that later
> on a newer tag was introduced "barrier=stile".
>
> If I use "highway=stile" alone, JOSM shows an error - not as a true
> validation error but as a bright yellow "no entry exclamation mark" icon. I
> can replace this in JOSM by adding the additional tag "barrier=stile" which
> replaces the pseudo-error with a nice stile icon.
>
> If I use "barrier=stile" alone, JOSM shows the stile icon - but the node
> does not render on the main map in osmarender. I can fix this by adding the
> additional tag "highway=stile" - it then renders as something like a "not ="
> symbol in osmarender.
>
> To force both JOSM and the main map (under osmarender) to look nice I need
> both tags - which seems a bit odd.
>
> Has anyone out there had a similar experience? What is the recommended
> tagging for stile - as a walker currently trying to get all west Cheshire
> public rights of way (and major permissive walking routes) onto osm via
> seven-years' worth of time-stamped gpx files, I would be glad of advice.
>
> Mike Harris
>
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