[OSM-newbies] postcodes, housenames, speed limits

[Mark Williams]

stead wrote:
> Hi, After posting some diary entries and realising i should of posted here I thought i'd say hi:)
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Hi!

> I've edited one of the streets in my area (about the only street may i add!)
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> i've got a couple of questions
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> 1.Should we save speed limits for roads?
Yes: There is a tag maxspeed=nn where nn is speed limit in Km/Hr ie
30mph==48

> 2.House names, this is a big thing for me, I work as a courier and house names are a nightmare, google maps are wildly inaccurate and I can only assume someone with a house name on a dart throws it and when it arrive in the general area google then decides to publish that house name on the web! I currently have around 185 housenames & hard to find businesses stored as poi's in my tom tom (a friend of mine has around 150 currently and we are both adding everyday when we find new houses), is there anyway to convert them to this? or is there anyway to add house names, i've read its not possible so far, but i'm hoping there will be an update to this, even if not everyone uses it, it'll be a major benefit to all those who have to deal with people naming their houses instead of using numbers!
As already said, this can be saved into the db but getting it back out
depends on software. It _is_ possible to customize the renderers to
display what _you_ want, on a home basis, but getting it to your mobile
device may be trickier.
You likely want to use OSM maps to get up-to-date maps, and keep POI's
to navigate to?

> 3.Speed limits, Should i add an extra tag for speed limits on roads?
as 1)..

> 4.number of lanes, now, i've noticed there doesn't really seem to be many roads stating the number of lanes, but i'll happily add them in on motorways/dual carrigeways/urban clearways on roads i know.
There is a lane tag. And a width tag. Not universally used, but
eminently usable
> 5.Postcodes, What about postcodes? from what I can tell we're not allowed to save postcodes? If i add postcodes to roads i know as an additional tag, will that be removed? as a courier I'm actually more used to finding places via postcode now and tend to use the street name when the postcode fails me! (sat nav's in all)
We're allowed to save them but the OSM format doesn't really cater to
them, so a separate project exists at freethepostcode

> 6.Speed bumps, now this may sound silly, but is it worth mentioning in a tag that a road includes speed bumps? I realise this may not seem beneficial now, but if these maps are ever used for sat nav's it can be used for lorries and other high usage drivers to attempt to avoid speed bumps and hopefully reduce stress on the vehicles, the potential for sat nav use is also comes in with my postcodes & speed limit's/house numbers, names and business locations questions as well :P
Yes - this is under discussion at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/barriers

Also cash cameras can be marked up, amenity=speed camera, & as many
other shops, petrol stations, toilets, etc as you like!

Mark