[Routing] Default speed limits / built-up areas (was: Re: generalized routing format - pre-computation)

[Marcus Wolschon]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:18:17 +0200, "Nic Roets" <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Marcus Wolschon
> <Marcus at wolschon.biz>wrote:
> 
>> You don't set maxspeed-values for default-values.
>> There have been lengthy discussions about that and
>> this is what was agreed on.
> 
> 
> The only thing that OSM agrees on is that "discussion", "agreed on" and
> "approved by voting" does not really matter.
> 
> What matters is what's in the planet and what the software (currently in
> use) implements.

Well, whatever.
If you write your software in a way, that it
does not differentiate between in-city and outside-city
then your assumed speeds and thus ETA-times and often
enough even the routes will be wrong.

Marcus