[OSM-newbies] Maxspeed

[Steve Bennett]

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Steve Evans <seventy7 at operamail.com> wrote:
> I wouldn't do it this way. I would leave maxspeed off all the roads tagged
> highway=residential and only tag the ones other than these, i.e. the
> small section of the approach roads where they pass the boundary?

I think because of the way OSM works that it's usually better to be
explicit. A road with "maxspeed=50" has a clear meaning. A road
without a maxspeed could mean that there is no limit, that the limit
is defined by some local rule, that it simply hasn't been mapped, etc
etc.

Steve