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<p>This is overloading the maxwidth tag - sometimes it means legal, sometimes it means physical. 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...</p>
<p>maxwidth:physical is being used to tag the actual available width - 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.</p>
<p><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxwidth:physical">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxwidth:physical</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:width">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:width</a></p>
<p>--colin</p>
<p>On 2015-09-08 08:44, Volker Schmidt wrote:</p>
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<div>I use "maxwidth" to map the max width road signs, which represent a legal access restriction, not necessaryly a physical acess restriction.<br /><br /></div>
I use "width" to tag the physical width of a road.<br /><br /></div>
If there is an object on the road that physicslly limits the width of the vehicles you can use the tag barrier=block like this<br />
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">barrier=block<br />material=concrete<br />maxwidth=2<br />vehicle=yes<br />foot=yes</div>
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<div>Replace concrete with metal and you have a tag for your metal-pole width restrictor</div>
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<div>Volker</div>
<div>Padova, Italy</div>
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