[OSM-newbies] Speed Limits

[Alberto Nogaro]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: newbies-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:newbies-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Sascha Silbe
>Sent: giovedì 11 dicembre 2008 18.26
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Speed Limits
>
>Another way to do it that hasn't been mentioned yet is appending a ":left"
/
>":right" or ":forward" / ":backward" suffix to the tag. E.g.
>use "maxspeed:forward" if the speed limit is in the same direction as the
way
>is drawn on screen (visualised as arrows by JOSM).
>As it's a common set of suffixes, it makes automatic evaluation of those
tags
>easy, without having to use multiple values with the same key (as would
happen
>if you'd encode it in the value instead of the key).

Thank you for this hint! I hadn't think of this way of handling the case,
and it's way more straightforward than the use of a relation.

I'll amend my OSM edits to use the ":forward" / ":backward" (I favor this
one to the ":left" /":right", where the involved direction would be country
dependent) tag suffix approach.

Is the use of those suffixes documented anywhere, by the way?

>I don't see a hostile comment on the Segmented Tags proposal

Sorry, English is not my language. I happened to use by mistake too harsh an
adjective for a plain objection.

Alberto