On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 16:13 -0500, John F. Eldredge wrote: > I have seen some tight intersections, with buildings directly > adjoining the roadway at all four corners, where a "maxlength" tag > would also be useful. A passenger car or a delivery truck would be > able to turn the corner, but a tractor-trailer rig (heavy goods > vehicle) or bus would get wedged in place. > > It would be unusual for that to not be accompanied by some sort of legal restriction signs, maybe no hgv, no buses or a plain maximum length sign.
Like maxspeed, maxlength should be the legal length, as signed. Phil (trigpoint) > On May 13, 2015 6:15:22 AM CDT, Paul Johnson <ba...@ursamundi.org> > wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Colin Smale > <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Don't agree with this... there have been discussions > in the past about whether the "width" of a "way" > includes the pavements etc... Where a road goes under > a bridge, where do you measure the "height" of the > road? The highest point (not good enough for vehicles) > or the "lowest highest point" or "in the middle of the > road"? I would expect maxheight:physical to apply to a > "normal vehicle", of maybe 2.5m width. > > > There are cases where maxheight:physical and maxwidth:physical > may be different from the legal definitions and significantly > affect the viability. A standout problem regularly occurs in > Oregon where you can have human powered vehicles up to about 3 > feet wide legally, but many cycleways, particularly older ones > built before the 1990s, have barriers that make all but the > 10-speeds with drop bars impractical as negotiating the > barriers that keep motorists out also prevent longer or wider > bicycles from fitting. Similar issues exist on Oklahoma > turnpikes, which commonly allow vehicles up to 11'6" wide, but > the typical cash toll booth is only capable of fitting a 9'5" > wide vehicle. Go figure. > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
