[Talk-GB] Is it useful to tag material=* of stiles?

[Tom Crocker]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, 16:34 Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB, <
talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dstile#Stile_type claims
>
> "Where possible, the stile should be tagged with material=* with values
> stone, wood, or metal."
>
> But is it actually useful? Based on photos it seems that basically all
> stiles within
> walls are mostly material=stone and ones with fences typically wooden,
> with ladder stiles made of wood.
>

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.

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.

I'd be interested in others thoughts on multi-material stiles though.

Tom

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