On Mon, 14 Dec 2020, 20:58 ael via Talk-GB, <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 08:30:01PM +0000, Neil Matthews wrote: > > Looks like there's been an attempt to remove all stiles from bridleways > -- > > pretty sure I've seen this done in other edits -- agree that they're a > > potential anomaly but should they really be a mechanical edit (even if by > > hand)? See https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/95739504 > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > I would regard this as vandalism if it is removing surveyed real stiles > to suit an ideal world where they are not permitted on bridleways. > > Perhaps I have misunderstood? > My understanding is that the stiles in question were mapped as a tag on a bridleway / footway junction, and have been moved to a node on the footway. This is highly likely to be to be correct, since a (foot) stile is a construction at the point where a path crosses a fence and so topologically cannot occur at a junction. I would generally feel OK doing this without a ground survey if it was reasonably clear that there is a fence paralleling the bridleway, and that the footpath is crossing. This might be visible on aerial photography where the bridleway runs in the gap between two fields, for example. >
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