[OSM-newbies] postcodes, housenames, speed limits

[Tancredi Tincani]

On 24/04/2008, Gregory Williams
<gregory.williams at purplegeodesoftware.co.uk> wrote:
> I'd think that it's a bad idea to imply maxspeed. Different countries
>  have different standard speed limits, for a start. I think manually
>  tagging at least shows that you've explicitly found out that piece of
>  information. The only flaw I can see is if the rules were changed due to
>  a law (say if all 30 mph speed limits in residential areas were reduced
>  to 25 mph). That's not particularly likely, though.

I hadn't thought about the fact the rules are never consistent across
countries (we're trying to build a street map of the whole planet,
after all :) ). Thanks for clearing that up.

Tancredi