On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:59:27 +0200, Pieren <pier...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Roy Wallace<waldo000...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. >> >> +1 > > No, no, no. maxheight until now was clearly the legal maxheight. It is > not explicitely writen on the wiki because you don't see the physical > height in many countries here in Europe but only the legal traffic > sign and the max height traffic sign is displayed on the Map Features > page since january 08. > I don't find any controversy about this interpretation in the archives > on this ML, so we can assume that maxheight was until now the legal > maxheight. We just need to clarify this point on the wiki and add a > new tag for the physical maxheight for countries where it is available > (call it maxheight:physical if you want) > > Pieren > No, you can only ASSUME that the current maxheight only use the legal form. Have you counted usages in countries where the physical maxheight are signed? Do you even know which countries such signs are available? Without any statistics, you cannot know.
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