[OSM-newbies] Speed Limits

[John F. Eldredge]

Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> No, you don't.
> 
> You do what Jo already wrote. You use maxspeed:forward and
> maxspeed:backward and completely forget anybody ever mentioned
> northbound etc.
> 
> On 01/24/2013 12:06 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote:
> > Yes, but if you have a winding road, you will have to split it up
> into many small segments, with a different set of speed limit tags
> every time the road curves.  You will also have ambiguous cases (if
> the road runs northeast to southwest, do you use the north/south pair
> of speed limit tags, or the east/west pair of tags)?
> 
> 
> ---
> m.v.g.,
> Cartinus
> 
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I know about the forward/backward tags; I was pointing out the impractibilities of the north/south/east/west scheme.

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