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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/7/31 Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl>:

> 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
+1
> maxheight:physical -> the name says it all: whatever fits under it
+1
> maxheight:legal -> a legal restriction of some kind
-1
why would you recommend different tags (maxheight:legal and maxheight)
for the same thing in different countries? This seems strange to me.
Just define explicitly, that maxheight is the legal maxheight, and you
don't have to change any existent tags (in the areas I know) and
retain consistency.

cheers,
Martin