[OSM-talk] Barrier=block areas

[Philip Barnes]

Hedges can certainly be areas, some can be a few metres thick.

A common mapping scenario is a thick hedge and a stile at each side. The only way to represent this is to map as an area and map the stiles as nodes connected to the outline.

Phil (trigpoint) 

On 16 August 2018 01:14:49 BST, David Fox <davefoxfac63 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>Barriers, by definition, provide some level of restriction. Without
>attaching them in some form it becomes hard for routers to account for
>them.
>Hedges and walls are linear in nature, not an area.
>
>On 15 August 2018, at 19:51, Tomasz Wójcik <tomox3 at wp.pl> wrote:
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>Currently, barrier=block is not allowed to be mapped as an area. As
>blocks can be big enough to map them as areas, I think it should be
>allowed, the same as in barrier=wall or barrier=hedge. Anyway,
>currently we have 3,9k of barrier=block areas in database.
>
>
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Abarrier%3Dblock
>
>
>Block examples:
>
>http://www.concrete-barriers-blocks.co.uk/up/concrete-barrier-type-m-block-photo.gif
>
>http://cdn1.codziennypoznan.pl/201606241325/pub/img/full/71/1c58d-a9.jpg
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>
>Barriers with mapping as area allowed
>
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier=wall 
>
>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3Abarrier%3Dhedge

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