[OSM-newbies] postcodes, housenames, speed limits

[Mark Williams]

Tancredi Tincani wrote:
> 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
> 

Also, I don't know any roads with a 30kph speed limit. Don't forget,
maxspeed isn't in mph!

Mark