On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Cartinus<carti...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > For three reasons: > > 1) In the part of my e-mail you did not quote I just pointed out lots of > people don't read those definitions. The difference between the words > maxheight and maxheight:physical is not explicit enough. > > 2) Because the old definition of maxheight didn't explicitly state it was a > legal and not a physical limitation. Just changing the definition now doesn't > magically transform all the places where people already tagged a physical > maxheight with the maxheight tag into a maxheight:physical tag. At least not > until somebody invents a mindreading osm-bot. > > 3) The people who do not care/know about the difference are still going to tag > a physical maxheight with the maxheight tag. > > The endresult is that you will never know whether something tagged with just > maxheight is a physical and/or legal limitation.
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