[Tagging] Maxspeed

[Paul Johnson]

On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Andrew MacKinnon <andrewpmk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> How do you tag speed limits on curves and highway on/off ramps? At
> least in Ontario, these speed limits are advisory only and signed with
> a yellow sign (and sometimes on curves you will see a curve speed
> limit sign and a higher general speed limit sign right beside each
> other).


These would be advisory speeds, not speed limits.


> Also how do you tag maxspeed which is unsigned? In Ontario the default
> speed limit is 50km/h in urban areas and 80km/h in rural areas when
> not signed. However, there have been proposals to lower the lower
> speed limit from 50km/h to 40km/h. I have been using maxspeed=national
> for this, is there a better way to tag this?
>

I usually maxspeed an explicit value with maxspeed:note indicating what's
going on.
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