Sorry Martin, are you agreeing with me or disagreeing? Supporting or undermining? It's rather difficult to tell.
Regarding maxwidth:physical, the examples in the wiki are actually from Finland where they apparently have explicit signs for the physical width. --colin On 2015-09-08 11:50, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > sent from a phone > > Am 08.09.2015 um 09:09 schrieb Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl>: > >> This is overloading the maxwidth tag - sometimes it means legal, sometimes >> it means physical. > > maxwidth is a legal limit, typically signposted. > >> This distinction needs to be crystal clear as it can be a matter of life and >> death (emergency vehicles can ignore legal limits but not physical ones...) >> so making its semantics so context-dependent is not a good idea... >> >> maxwidth:physical is being used to tag the actual available width > > the maxwidth:physical tag was introduced IIRR by Latin American mappers > because in their country there are 2 kinds of signposted widths/heights (i.e. > in these countries also maxwidth:physical is signposted) > >> - which by the way is not the same as the distance between the kerbs or the >> width of the whole carriageway including paths/grass etc. That may be better >> tagged using width=* but the description of that in the wiki is not >> particularly clear. > > width is OK in some contexts, but as it refers to the object it is tagged on, > it is not working in others like bollards for instance (would denote the > width of the bollard, not of the opening). I'd use maxwidth:physical for > those cases (even if not signposted). > > maxwidth:legal is just a synonym for maxwidth (IMHO), rarely used and > introduced for symmetry reasons by the people that advocated for > maxwidth:physical . > > cheers > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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