[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Clearance

Roy Wallace waldo000000 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 01:52:22 BST 2009


On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM, John Smith<delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there really such an overwhelming need to mark the physical difference to the legal difference?

Whether there is an "overwhelming" need is not the question. The
question is whether allowing for the annotation of two kinds of
maxheight is a good idea.

Aun has pointed out that "many countries have two different signs for
max legal height and max physical height, and its usages can be very
different". This, I would argue, is a reason to allow for the
possibility to differentiate between maxheight:physical and
maxheight:legal.

Another reason is that it would help clarify the *meaning* of the
"maxheight" tag, which may be advantageous for
readability/maintainability - even in the case where only one kind of
maxheight restriction is applicable to a certain way.

Does anyone have any arguments against the above scheme, and if so, do
they outweigh the arguments for it?




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