<div dir="ltr">We now have 1 country with 2 differing default values, depending on the region you happen to be in. A bit annoying. We'll probably need to tag all of them explicitely with maxspeed values. OTOH, we were already doing that anyway.<div><br></div><div>Polyglot</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-05 11:00 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-10-05 3:35 GMT+02:00 André Pirard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.pirard.papou@gmail.com" target="_blank">a.pirard.papou@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">I don't think that default values like maxspeed=*, driving_side=*,
or even oneway=no should be tagged on highways.<br>
Most roads (in Belgium and in the world) don't contain any, BTW, and
it makes no sense using a few.<br>
A default values specification should be used instead.<br>
Those tags should be contained in the highest level administrative
boundary relation or equivalent in which they apply.<br>
maxspeed=70 should apply to Flanders and maxspeed=90 to Wallonia.</div></blockquote></div><br><br></span>what you propose is not working, because speed limits are about roads, not administrative entities. You have to know the context (rural/urban inside settlement according to traffic law, etc.) in order to assign a maxspeed, and the only way we currently use to understand which context applies are the source:maxspeed values. It is very simple, doesn't require preprocessing, can be applied by everyone without looking for and downloading surrounding administrative polygons, and is also quite reliable. Why would we give this up?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Martin<br></div></div>
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