Pieren wrote:
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
no, you can always compare it to the width of your vehicle, therefore
it doesn't require that all streets are tagged width it.
?? With my Fiat 500 or you BMW X5 ?
AND: you can
always compare to the construction standards for new roads in your
part of the world.
But that's the point. If you write on a segment of residential
"width=4", it will be narrow in US and normal in old Europe. That's
why I said that a width is only useful if you can compare it to
something else. I'm still waiting a proposal for the default width per
highway category.
Don't want to stir up a whole new hornet's nest, but would that be
kerb-to-kerb (i.e. tarmac width) or wall-to-wall (limiting the overall
vehicle width)?
In the Netherlands, and probably other countries as well, there is an
assumed minimum headroom (4.0m) and probably width as well. Any
obstruction not marked with a sign can be assumed to be at least
high/wide as the minimum. I know an international truck driver
(UK-based) who has to know such details, as the assumed minimum headroom
in e.g. UK is higher (16ft/5.03m according to Wikipedia). So if he is
driving a truck 4.1m high he cannot rely on the signage in NL.
Colin
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