Hello, there.
It has been recently noted by the French community that the maximum weight road signs from France did not mean limit on actual vehicle weight (maxweight=*) but max allowed weight (maxweightrating=*). After discussion, a progressive, nation-wide migration to maxweightrating=* has been decided by the community.
In February 2026, all objects tagged with maxweight=* will be nation-wide dual-tagged with maxweightrating=*, with a note=* warning of the incoming deprecation of maxweight=* for France, and that these maxweight=* tags should now be ignored and no longer updated. In July 2026, all these objects will have their maxweight=* tags removed, along with the note=*.
Once the migration will be complete, all maxweight=* tags and subtags in France would be erroneous. I'm unsure how this would impact OSRM, but it seems that it currently only supports maxweight=*; it would be great that it also supports maxweightrating=*, isn't it? 😉
Hello, there.
It has been recently noted by the French community that the maximum weight road signs from France did not mean limit on actual vehicle weight (
maxweight=*) but max allowed weight (maxweightrating=*). After discussion, a progressive, nation-wide migration tomaxweightrating=*has been decided by the community.In February 2026, all objects tagged with
maxweight=*will be nation-wide dual-tagged withmaxweightrating=*, with anote=*warning of the incoming deprecation ofmaxweight=*for France, and that thesemaxweight=*tags should now be ignored and no longer updated. In July 2026, all these objects will have theirmaxweight=*tags removed, along with thenote=*.Once the migration will be complete, all
maxweight=*tags and subtags in France would be erroneous. I'm unsure how this would impact OSRM, but it seems that it currently only supportsmaxweight=*; it would be great that it also supportsmaxweightrating=*, isn't it? 😉