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

[Cartinus]

There are lots of mappers that don't read the wiki pages at all and lots of 
mappers that only give them a cursory glance. So when introducing new tags it 
should be important that the tag itself is as descriptive as possible.

When comparing the words maxheight and clearance, it isn't obvious at a glance 
that they will be used for related but decidedly different things. The end 
effect of that will be that people are going to use one when they "should" 
have used the other.


When using maxheight / maxheight:physical / maxheight:legal the words themself 
already tell most of the definition.

maxheight -> for places where the difference is academic / for people who 
don't care about the difference

maxheight:physical -> the name says it all: whatever fits under it

maxheight:legal -> a legal restriction of some kind

-- 
m.v.g.,
Cartinus