[Tagging] barrier enforcing maxwidth

[John Willis]

Im talking about how to tag the barrier. That thing was **tight** and very unusual to find in a major urban area. 

The amount of scars on the poles was amazing. 

The hight restriction barrier (a common thing) is tagged along with maxheight - this barrier seemed to be the same - if you are over max you will hit and severely damage your vehecle on the barrier - not the bridge or overpass or whatever. 

Javbw

> On Sep 8, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't think a new tag is warranted.  maxwidth=* is fairly unequivocal.  If map users or routers want to interpret it as "max width, but probably not really, there's probably a bit of extra space, I mean, who's going to be that petty" then that's not your problem.
> 
> Since most roads do not have a maxwidth=* restriction it is safe to assume that the road is suitable for any vehicle*, but if you add a maxwidth tag somewhere it is immediately clear it was done purposefully.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 8 September 2015 at 12:38, johnw <johnw at mac.com> wrote:
>> I was driving in Chiba and Saitama yesterday and encountered a couple new types of barriers. I realized later one is traffic_calming=chicane. 
>> 
>> 
>> The other one is all over rural Japan as traffic_calming=choker on rural roads that could bypass traffic near the rivers, - but this one is not for traffic calming, it is for enforcement of maxwidth of the bridge, similar to barrier=hight_restrictor. 
>> . They put very strong steel poles or guardrails along the sides and center of the road at the maxwidth + 20 cm of a standard car.  car can pass (barely, my mirrors were 5 cm away from each pole), but a large dump truck cannot pass. Both are in areas where commercial dump trucks or other large vehicles are nearby, but this one is used to enforce access to the narrow bridge near a very very busy area to keep a massive traffic jam from occurring from a stuck dump truck. 
>> 
>> https://goo.gl/maps/8KUw7  The maxwidth is signed and guardrails are doing the job. This is width limited for the very narrow bridge in the background. 
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>> https://goo.gl/maps/3NT9X  The other direction. Poles are used. 
>> 
>> Is this a reason for creating barrier=width_restrictor ? 
>> 
>> 
>> Javbw
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