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

[Paul Berry]

> 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.

Good point. I tend to add as much detail, as I've either recorded or can
remember later, as there are tags for stiles (as with any other object in
OSM that comes in various forms). Two reasons for this:

   - I want to get as much information captured in one pass as I can.
   - I never know how useful the information could be to someone else. For
   instance, imagine if someone wanted to plot the distribution of stile types
   and materials right across the UK...

Happy mapping, everyone.

Regards,
*Paul*

On Mon, 28 Jun 2021 at 22:01, Tom Crocker <tomcrockermail at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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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