[Tagging] Tagging average speed [Was: Re: Residential roads]

[Elena ``of Valhalla'']

On 2010-10-04 at 10:57:19 +0100, Woll Newall wrote:
> I wouldn't use 'average speed' for the tag, because it implies something 
> else, but that's what the OP chose for this thread. 'traffic speed' or 
> something like that would be better.

I'm not a native speaker, so any improvement on the tag names is welcome.

> [...]
> If I go to the nearest main road to my house in between the hours of  
> 16:00 and 18:00 every weekday, I can measure the speed at which the  
> traffic is moving. It will be consistent every day. [...]
> In UK cities, I expect many roads are like this. [...]

It is the same in many cities and town in Italy

> Routing programs can't use heuristics to work out these speeds, they are 
> too dependent on local micro-conditions. But we can measure them.

+1, expecially the times that are considered rush hour or not are 
very dependent on local conditions, and not easily calculated 
from known osm data.

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