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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-02-05 22:57, Jo wrote :<br>
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<div>Hi,<br>
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Over the past days, I adapted the data file for the road
sign plugin for Belgium.<br>
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I'd like to ask you to test it.<br>
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Install the plugin the usual way and select something. Look at
the top right corner of the tags pane on the right. A little
icon was added there, press it and choose BE.<br>
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Now it becomes easy to tag traffic signs and their effects on
the ways they apply to. I'm going to ask the developers for some
improvements, but it is functional already.<br>
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I suppose that you mean <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/RoadSigns">JOSM/Plugins/RoadSigns</a>.<br>
I have read several times about mapping road/traffic signs and I was
wondering what to use them for.<br>
A traffic sign is obviously tagged on a node, which obviously cannot
indicate a traffic rule applying to a way.<br>
Moreover, traffic_sign=BE:xxx is totally ignored by GPS software.
They don't know country specifics.<br>
Hence I came to the conclusion that traffic signs are just adorning
the map.<br>
Trying to use them for traffic control would induce complete chaos
like for noexit=yes and be the end of routing.<br>
I looked at this plugin and I was reassured that they only use
traffic signs as a visual aid to tag only the well established tags
for traffic rules.<br>
But now I read "to tag traffic signs and their effects on the ways
they apply to" which is very unclear and exactly what the plugin
does not. Could you please explain that clearly, because fuzzy
notions won't help the GPS working, they're full of errors already.<br>
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Regarding tests, it's surprising. I click on the little icon but I
see no "BE to choose".<br>
If I click Setting, I see several countries but not Belgium.<br>
I clicked on a node and it added maxspeed=30 on that node, which a
plugin should advice novices not to do.<br>
Please notify.<br>
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BTW, source:maxspeed=zone30/signal is incorrect because a zone 30 or
signal is not a source of information.<br>
The correct form is maxspeed:type=zone30/signal because they are a
type of speed limit.<br>
But now I see that this plugin uses zone:maxspeed=DE:30<br>
I wonder what is a DE:30 speed limit is and I regard
zone:maxspeed=30 as the undisputed ultimate solution.<br>
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During my few tests, I somehow popped up a<br>
Highway/Street/Restrictions preset showing<br>
highway=secondary<br>
bicycle=yes<br>
which is wrong.<br>
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That's the result of the tests I made.<br>
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