[Tagging] Specifying maxweight, when different weight limits are signed

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Thu Dec 31 13:44:47 UTC 2015


On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 14:30 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> 
> sent from a phone
> 
> > Am 30.12.2015 um 19:26 schrieb Jack Burke <burkejf3 at gmail.com>:
> > 
> > What's the right way to specify maxweight when the weight limit
> > sign has different values for different vehicles?  Just use the
> > highest value shown?
> 
> 
> you should specify the maxweight for all vehicles distinctly, e.g.
> maxweight:hgv=
> maxweight:bus=
> 
> http://taginfo.osm.org/keys/maxweight%3Ahgv
> 
> 
They all seem to apply to hgv, but to me it looks like an axle weight
limit of just over 6t, but signed in a very odd way.

13 / 2 = 6.5
19 / 3 = 6.3333
25 / 4 = 6.25

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxaxleload

I would take the worst case and tag it as maxaxleload=6.25.

Phil (trigpoint)




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