[Talk-GB] Advice needed for maxweight turning restriction

[Shaun McDonald]

The oneway except cyclists bit is a well defined thing, whereby you can use the tag cycleway=opposite. You can be more specific by saying opposite_lane, or opposite_track as appropriate. (There are other way to tag the same thing which may be appropriate).

Shaun

On 12 Oct 2013, at 21:00, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

> I came across an odd situation where a road is on way, except for cycles
> and vehicles over 13'3" high. Its a residential area of Shrewsbury which
> would be a useful rat run, hence the oneway. But to make it complicated,
> there is are industrial units, and a low bridge.
> 
> Not sure of a better way, but have added a note.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/39348226
> 
> Phil (trigpoint) 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 20:11 +0100, Ed Loach wrote:
>> ael wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a road with a maxweight (7.5t) sign at one end but none at
>> the
>>> other end. So I take it that this means that vehicles over this
>> weight
>>> may not enter from that end.
>>> 
>>> I have used relation tagged with
>>> type=restriction:maxweight
>>> maxweight = 7.5
>>> restriction = no_entry
>>> 
>>> including the relevant ways with "from" and "to" roles.
>>> 
>>> This was my best guess from what I could find on the wiki.
>>> 
>>> Is this the right way (in the UK)? Or will it be interpreted as
>> no-entry
>>> for all vehicles by routers?
>> 
>> I mapped a road which had different maxweight restrictions depending
>> on which way you entered it:
>> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/55165330
>> I used maxweight:forward and maxweight:backward based if I remember
>> correctly on IRC discussion and this wiki page:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Forward_%26_backward,_left_%26_ri
>> ght
>> 
>> No relations needed. In your case you would only need to tag either
>> forward or backward depending on the way direction.
>> 
>> Whether routers spot these tags currently or not I don't know; I
>> personally doubt it. But they may in the future if they don't
>> already.
>> 
>> I hope this helps,
>> 
>> Ed
>> 
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