[Tagging] Basic question about functional classification of highways

[Paul Johnson]

Osmand and pretty much any other nav software worth it's salt already
interprets maxspeed (though I wish minspeed was also factored in more
often).
On Jun 17, 2014 4:25 AM, "Philip Barnes" <phil at trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

> I disagree with just using a number, the tags are there to indicate that
> the mapper had interpreted the speed limit from the type of road.
>
> Should the limits change they make finding the limits that require changes
> easier.
>
> The number should be tagged, and I would not expect a data consumer to use
> maxspeed tags, they are useful for validation.
>
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
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> Sent from my Nokia N9
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> On 17/06/2014 10:09 Andrew Shadura wrote:
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> Both "maxspeed=<countrycode>:<zone type>" and "maxspeed=<zone type>" are
> evil, as we need to have a separate DB for those zonal limits. Please, just
> use maxspeed=<number>.
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> --
> Cheers,
>   Andrew
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