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

[Tony Shield]

Material is useful particularly in urban situations. A steel squeezer 
designed to prevent motorcyclists is likely to be there several years 
after installation, whereas a wooden one will likely have been destroyed 
to allow access. Those metal squeezers are also difficult to navigate 
with a bicycle and tall people and those with bulky rucsac's.

Regards

Tony

On 28/06/2021 22:53, Paul Berry wrote:
> > 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 
> <mailto:tomcrockermail at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, 16:34 Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-GB,
>     <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-gb at openstreetmap.org>> wrote:
>
>         https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dstile#Stile_type
>         <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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