And now to the list too: On Friday 31 July 2009 04:42:56 Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > 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.
For three reasons: 1) In the part of my e-mail you did not quote I just pointed out lots of people don't read those definitions. The difference between the words maxheight and maxheight:physical is not explicit enough. 2) Because the old definition of maxheight didn't explicitly state it was a legal and not a physical limitation. Just changing the definition now doesn't magically transform all the places where people already tagged a physical maxheight with the maxheight tag into a maxheight:physical tag. At least not until somebody invents a mindreading osm-bot. 3) The people who do not care/know about the difference are still going to tag a physical maxheight with the maxheight tag. The endresult is that you will never know whether something tagged with just maxheight is a physical and/or legal limitation. -- m.v.g., Cartinus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk