[Imports] imports distorting usage stats of source:maxspeed tag

[Jason Remillard]

Hi Martin,

It looks like most of the source:maxspeed=massgis were not from an import,
but from a very prolific mapper, NE2. You may want to consider changing the
tags yourself. User NE2 is currently not participating in OSM right now.

Jason




On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <
dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at actual usage numbers [1] for the tag "source:maxspeed" I
> noticed that a lot of uses that deviate from the key docu [2] in the wiki,
> actually came in by imports, namely
>
>
> - FDOT␣"Maximum␣Speed␣Limits"␣GIS␣data,␣updated␣August␣27,␣2011:␣
> http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/gis/roaddata.shtm
>
> - massgis
>
> - stats19
>
> - http://monolitos.montevideo.gub.uy/resoluci.nsf/WEB/Numero/954-13
>
> and some more.
>
> also this one seems strange:
> BING␣+␣wiedza␣własna<http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/source%3Amaxspeed=BING%20%2B%20wiedza%20w%C5%82asna>
> (can you get speed limits from Bing?)
>
> As a mapper that frequently looks at source:maxspeed usage my impression
> is that these distorting values have been imported lately. I'd like to
> kindly ask the importing mappers to revert at least this part of their
> import.
>
> thank you,
> Martin
>
>
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> [1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/source%3Amaxspeed#values
> [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source:maxspeed
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