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<div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/27 Stephen Hope <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slhope@gmail.com">slhope@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">2009/12/27 John Smith <<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with<br>> racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish, everyone else<br>> is limited to 100, how exactly do you map that? (and I saw one such<br>
> sign only the day before yesterday).<br>><br><br></div>Umm, actually that one's a bit of an urban myth. The sign (and it's a<br>UN standard sign, not just Australian) means "end of local speed<br>limits, back to State/Country default speed limit." The racing<br>
licence thing comes from very old rule in NSW where they didn't<br>enforce the limit (for anybody) as long as you were not driving at<br>"excessive or dangerous" speeds, and no longer applies. Somebody once<br>
used the "I'm a racing driver, it's not excessive for me" excuse and<br>got off.<br><br>As long as you know the state default speed limit, this is easy to<br>tag. It is exactly the same as a sign with that limit.<br>
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<div>in Germany there is indeed no speed limit ("Ende aller Streckenverbote" translates to "end of all restrictions") after this sign (on motorways and dual cariageways outside town limits), so there was a proposal for a tag some time ago, which was strongly rejected:</div>
<div><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/maxspeed_none">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/maxspeed_none</a></div>
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<div>see the discussion page for more info.</div>
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<div>cheers,</div>
<div>Martin</div></div>