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

[Dave Stubbs]

2009/1/5 Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>:
> On 2 Jan 2009 at 21:22, Dave Stubbs wrote:
>
>>The tag was always highway=stile. There's thousands in existence. It
>>works perfectly well. There was a wiki discussion where barriers were
>>thought about and the people on that discussion decided to rename
>>stiles as barrier=stile to make it more consistent. There's no
>>compulsion for anybody to agree with this, and also there's no reason
>>we can't use both.
>
>
> Isn't a stile the two-sided ladder that goes over a fence? If so, a stile isn't a barrier, it
> establishes a way over a barrier, eg. a continuation of a footpath.


Depends whether you're on a bike or not at the time :-)

Anyway, it's as much of a barrier as a gate, which isn't a barrier at
all if it happens to be open.
And a four foot wall isn't much of a barrier either as you can pretty
much step over them.

Dave