[talk-au] Adding Maxspeed to maps

[John Smith]

On 22 July 2010 14:39, Kevin & Ruth Sheather
<mobilesheathers at bigpond.com> wrote:
> tracks and make changes. The biggest problem is where increase and decrease
> signs for opposite directions don’t coincide or where some are missing or, I
> sometimes think, deliberately not installed so traffic will be delayed in
> speeding up.

I've only come across this once, and so far I don't think there is no
really good solution, but I did the following:

set maxspeed=* to be the lower value, then set the direction of the
way in the same direction as the higher value and then set
maxspeed:forward=* to the higher value:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/37928542

> For me this is a bit of a “labour of love” as my Garmin 765T will not render
> maxspeeds from OSM.

>From a pragmatic point of view you may get a new one in future that
while it may not render it might tell you if you are exceeding the
speed limit...