2010/1/2 Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com>: > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Ben Laenen <benlae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> So, numbers on signs about restrictions (maximum speed, maximum height, >> maximum length, maximum weight...): trailing zeros have no value, as those >> numbers are "exact". > > Not necessarily. Perhaps the number on the sign came from a > measurement? E.g. "Maximum Clearance: 2.0" Perhaps this is a case of > ambiguity between whether the number refers to a "restriction" or to > physical clearance. I suspect this ambiguity is quite common.
This came up some time ago, there was a thread about maxheight and maxheight:physical and I think the majority of the time signs indicate the legal clearance. You can see this clearly if you find a bridge that is sloped, like one near here has 5.0m on both side even though you could clearly have half a metre more on the higher side. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
