That would depend on so many factors, including wheelbase, overhang, width, driving skill, weight distribution on individual wheels, even speed.. Google for "swept path analysis"....
//colin On 2015-05-15 23:13, John F. Eldredge wrote: > I have seen some tight intersections, with buildings directly adjoining the > roadway at all four corners, where a "maxlength" tag would also be useful. A > passenger car or a delivery truck would be able to turn the corner, but a > tractor-trailer rig (heavy goods vehicle) or bus would get wedged in place. > > On May 13, 2015 6:15:22 AM CDT, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: > > Don't agree with this... there have been discussions in the past about > whether the "width" of a "way" includes the pavements etc... Where a road > goes under a bridge, where do you measure the "height" of the road? The > highest point (not good enough for vehicles) or the "lowest highest point" or > "in the middle of the road"? I would expect maxheight:physical to apply to a > "normal vehicle", of maybe 2.5m width. > There are cases where maxheight:physical and maxwidth:physical may be > different from the legal definitions and significantly affect the viability. > A standout problem regularly occurs in Oregon where you can have human > powered vehicles up to about 3 feet wide legally, but many cycleways, > particularly older ones built before the 1990s, have barriers that make all > but the 10-speeds with drop bars impractical as negotiating the barriers that > keep motorists out also prevent longer or wider bicycles from fitting. > Similar issues exist on Oklahoma turnpikes, which commonly allow vehicles up > to 11'6" wide, but the typical cash toll booth is only capable of fitting a > 9'5" wide vehicle. Go figure. > > ------------------------- > > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging [1] -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] (615) 299-6451 "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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