[Tagging] stiles

[Andy Townsend]

On 24/08/2022 14:49, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging wrote:
> "I've added stile=ramblers_gate as well, because it is one of the 
> suggestions in the iD editor"
>
> is it really not a subset of stile=squeezer?

FWIW, with very low usage values, taginfo says no:

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=ramblers_gate#values

even if you discount the ones I've mapped after finding out what they 
were called.  Personally, I don't think it really matters whether it's 
"stile=ramblers_gate" or "stile=squeezer; squeezer=ramblers_gate, so 
let's stick with what's already in the database.

They present a very different finger-trapping hazard when compared to a 
regular squeezer stile, but do allow a more generously-proportioned 
rambler through.  Right now I suspect that many are tagged as something 
else because there are relatively few of them (I'm sure I've missed 
lots).  Where they are in use locally, it tends to be that a a big 
estate has replaced all the old wooden stiles on their land with them.

> If that is really a separate type then I guess that StreetComplete stile
> type quest may benefit from offering it as a a selectable value.

By all means - but you may also think that it's such a rare value (see 
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/stile#values ) that it's not 
worth offering.

Best Regards,

Andy