SMV seems to be a North American term, e.g. see: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/vehicles/slow-moving-vehicle-sign.shtml http://safeny.ny.gov/media/SMV-broc4-09.pdf
But i would be fine with slow_vehicle as well. Regards Markus On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 at 18:01, Steve Doerr <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's scotch this idea of smv straightaway. Whereas PSV, HGV and LGV are > well-established abbreviations, at least in UK English, I've never come > across slow-moving vehicles referred to as SMVs - this seems to have been > made up on the fly in this thread. We don't really like abbreviations in > OSM anyway. As slow-moving_vehicle is a bit of a mouthful, I'd suggest > slow_vehicle as a reasonable tag to use. Or crawler. > > > Steve > > > On 11/09/2018 13:07, Dave Swarthout wrote: > > Okay, I guess the consensus here is that, even though I dislike it, I must > use the lanes approach. In my original tagging, I had invented a new > category of service road, service=slow_vehicle_turnout, but perhaps an > abbreviated form of slow_moving_vehicle would be more consistent and easier > in the end. In the example provided by SelfishSeahorse, he uses > smv:lanes:forward=|designated (as well as its counterpart in lanes:forward) > and that seems consistent with other abbreviated tags, like hov and hgv so > I'll use that terminology in my tagging. Perhaps someone of you would like > to add the smv abbreviation and description to the Wiki. > > Thanks for the input and discussion, > > AlaskaDave > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 3:24 AM Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 14:36 SelfishSeahorse <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I wasn't aware that it is allowed to cross a single solid line in the >> >> USA. Hence forget the overtaking:lanes:<forward/backward>=* tags in >> >> the example in my last message. >> >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 3:48 PM Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > It's a recentish (late 90s/early 2000s) update to the MUTCD, before >> that you would be correct (and usually as a stopgap between striping, >> places where this is still the case is highlighted by signage, but this is >> getting to be rare as most plsces have had long enough to require a repaint >> if not a repave since then). >> >> The states have had considerable leeway in how they mark their own >> highways (the Federal government has control only on the highways that >> it funds). New York has used a single solid white line to mean 'lane >> crossing discouraged but not prohibited' for the 45 years that I've >> been driving here. Prohibited lane crossings have, for at least that >> long, been set off by double lines or by partial-barrier lines with >> the solid line toward the lane that must not be departed from. >> >> I seem to recall that the meaning of a single solid yellow line has >> varied from 'crossing discouraged', to 'crossing forbidden but left >> turns permitted', to 'crossing prohibited'. The current drivers' >> manual states that they have the same regulatory effect as a double >> yellow line. (Left turns across a double yellow are permitted only >> when they can be accomplished without impeding traffic in either >> direction and only into private driveways, entrances and alleys.) The >> only single yellow center lines I've seen in the last couple of >> decades have been on private roads, where they mean, 'the owner was >> too cheap to shell out for enough paint for standard markings.' >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> > > > -- > Dave Swarthout > Homer, Alaska > Chiang Mai, Thailand > Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing > [email protected]https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > > ------------------------------ > [image: Avast logo] <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> > > <#m_-3098846559126106569_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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