A wooden barrier, made up of vertical planks, without gaps between and 2m high. Would that be a fence or a wall? It's the structure in the background here, in front of the green building: https://www.mapillary.com/app/?focus=photo&pKey=5qL_nzSJcCSBd7TrRpS35Q asked 12 May '17, 08:09  pbb |
4 Answers:
Sounds like a fence to me. answered 12 May '17, 09:55  SomeoneElse ♦ |
Definitely a fence where I come from, Queensland in Australia, and a common property divider between houses in suburban residential areas. answered 12 May '17, 11:45  nevw edited 18 May '17, 13:30 |
According to Wikipedia:
The object in question doesn't have a solid foundation so I would tag it as a fence. answered 12 May '17, 11:19  scai ♦ Very smart, I hadn't though about checking Wikipedia. But I am in doubt about their definition, it would mean that the barrier shown in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dry_Stone_wall_building.JPG is a fence? (Since it doesn't have a foundation.) (12 May '17, 12:01) pbb I would consider the bottom line of stones to be some kind of foundation since they seem to be halfway inside the ground. But I see your point, this definition isn't really good. So far my understanding of a fence was always "something you can see through" but this doesn't always fit either. Your picture looks like a fence to me. The reason for this is probably it doesn't look as solid as a typical wall. (12 May '17, 12:07) scai ♦ 2 The Wikipedia page on Wall is not as clear-cut: "The conventional differentiation is that a fence is of minimal thickness and often open in nature, while a wall is usually more than a nominal thickness and is completely closed, or opaque. More to the point, an exterior structure of wood or wire is generally called a fence—but one of masonry is a wall." (12 May '17, 12:21) pbb |
Hi PBB, barrier=wall with the description, a freestanding structure, designed to restrict or prevent movement across a boundary and almost always built so that it is opaque to vision. (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:barrier) and details as material=wood just to make it clear it’s not a stone wall, the height and even a gate if present. answered 12 May '17, 09:50  Hendrikklaas |
Its closed ?
I'm siding with fence in the end, though it is in a grey zone.
3 out of 5 make it lean more towards fence for me.
If you look at the images on fence type, your case is pretty similar to the first picture for concrete.