[OSM-newbies] Highway Types and Speed Limits

[Alan Mintz]

At 2009-10-15 03:39, you wrote:
>And after spending a summer driving in Finland I decided that there is a
>Finnish law that says that the speed limit on any given road must change
>(usually in increments of 20 kph - but sometimes 10 kph) at least once every
>500 metres - with the speed cameras usually strategically placed to make
>sure that you need to care about this! (No - I'm not complaining - I didn't
>get caught - yet!).


:) Reminds me of a story.

My business partner came back from a trip where he drove from Pittsburgh, 
PA into Ohio, apparently on the Penn Turnpike (I-76), with a similar story 
about speed limits going from 60 down to 40 and back up again every mile or 
two. When I went back with him on the next trip, I saw that he failed to 
notice that the 40 signs said "minimum", not "maximum" :)

Do remember to tag minspeed where it applies - people driving farming 
equipment might use OSM, too. There's this, too: 
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/31/barstool.dui/index.html :)

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>