On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote:
> this information is as essential for transport companies as max weight and
> max height if they ever transport hazardous materials.

Also useful for Recreational Vehicle (aka "land yachts") - some
tunnels require small natural gas or propane (cooking gas) tanks be
turned OFF at the tank, some ban all tanks.

So this is a useful attribute for a road net database that is to be
used for routing.

+1

(of course, we must be sure to source such data from appropriately
licensed source or actual signage, not from commercial hazmat atlas.)

OT - Only time in my long career that I've been paid to do GIS, I was
producing hazmat atlases of a different sort -- where was the hazmat
concentrated on the rail grid?

-- 
Bill
@n1vux [email protected]

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