[Tagging] Maxspeed
Philip Barnes
phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Sat May 16 09:42:09 UTC 2015
On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 16:13 -0500, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> I have seen some tight intersections, with buildings directly
> adjoining the roadway at all four corners, where a "maxlength" tag
> would also be useful. A passenger car or a delivery truck would be
> able to turn the corner, but a tractor-trailer rig (heavy goods
> vehicle) or bus would get wedged in place.
>
>
It would be unusual for that to not be accompanied by some sort of legal
restriction signs, maybe no hgv, no buses or a plain maximum length
sign.
Like maxspeed, maxlength should be the legal length, as signed.
Phil (trigpoint)
> On May 13, 2015 6:15:22 AM CDT, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
> wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Colin Smale
> <colin.smale at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Don't agree with this... there have been discussions
> in the past about whether the "width" of a "way"
> includes the pavements etc... Where a road goes under
> a bridge, where do you measure the "height" of the
> road? The highest point (not good enough for vehicles)
> or the "lowest highest point" or "in the middle of the
> road"? I would expect maxheight:physical to apply to a
> "normal vehicle", of maybe 2.5m width.
>
>
> There are cases where maxheight:physical and maxwidth:physical
> may be different from the legal definitions and significantly
> affect the viability. A standout problem regularly occurs in
> Oregon where you can have human powered vehicles up to about 3
> feet wide legally, but many cycleways, particularly older ones
> built before the 1990s, have barriers that make all but the
> 10-speeds with drop bars impractical as negotiating the
> barriers that keep motorists out also prevent longer or wider
> bicycles from fitting. Similar issues exist on Oklahoma
> turnpikes, which commonly allow vehicles up to 11'6" wide, but
> the typical cash toll booth is only capable of fitting a 9'5"
> wide vehicle. Go figure.
>
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