[OSM-newbies] SpeedLimits and traffic lights

[Mark Williams]

On Monday 30 Apr 2007 13:16, Stephen Gower wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 01:08:29PM +0100, Daniel Would wrote:
> > However there appears not to be a 'standard' for stuch things
> > at the moment I've used
> > SpeedLimit  = 30
> > and
> > Junction = Traffic Lights
> >
> > But I'd be keen to fit in with any scheme that already exists.
>
>   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features has nodes
>   being marked with highway=traffic_signals for the former, and
>   http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Key:access has maxspeed=48
>   for indicating a 48km/hr speed limit (note that it's km, not
>   miles!)

Which I do use, Maplint complaints about unrecognised tags but josmlint 
doesn't - I have ignored on the basis that more information must be good!

Most of my early stuff has a maxspeed tag, but I tend now to mark it where it 
isn't the standard for the road, otherwise when the gov't finally gets round 
to upping the quaint 70mph national limit we'll have made ourselves a job....

Mark