[Tagging] stiles

[Anne-Karoline Distel]

Fair enough, I have amalgamated.

Anne

On 23/08/2022 14:30, Dave F wrote:
> Hi
>
> Unsure what specific edits you performed, but general comments to
> reduce the confusion:
>
> I believe the 'Stile type' section is similar information to the table
> and should be amalgamated.
> The table's column should be ordered Tags|Notes|images to be similar
> with other wiki tables.
>
> I'm aware the first sentence is a copy form wikipedia, but to be more
> OSM specific I think it should be amended to read "A stile is a
> structure which provides *pedestrians* a passage through or over a
> *barrier* via..."
>
> The Possible rendering section can be removed & a more accurate
> rendered image in the How to map section needs to be included.
>
> Cheers
> DaveF
>
> On 23/08/2022 12:44, Anne-Karoline Distel wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> just letting you know that I made some (hopefully) improvements on
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dstile#Stile_type,
>> because I was preparing a video about mapping them and found the
>> article only partly helpful and partly confusing.
>>
>> There are quite a few stile=fence and stile=wall and even
>> stile=barrier according to taginfo which doesn't make an awful lot of
>> sense, but obviously, I cannot correct them without ground truth.
>> Maybe there should be a "Common mapping mistakes" section in that
>> article including those as well.
>>
>> I've added stile=ramblers_gate as well, because it is one of the
>> suggestions in the iD editor, and luckily I found images on
>> Wikicommons. I don't think we have them in Ireland, but I thought it
>> be better to include them in the documentation. Wikipedia calls it
>> "Rambler Gate", btw.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Anne
>>
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