[talk-au] maxspeed - best practice?

[John Henderson]

On 15/08/12 06:49, Ben Johnson wrote:
> It's part of a traffic zone proposal. It derives values based on the
>  country and type of zone. It looks like it can be an effective way
> to define an entire set of tags that should apply consistently
> across a group of ways (eg a method for all ways in a defined
> "built-up" area to share a common set of key/values including
> maxspeed, and other rules).
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> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/trafficzone#Examples
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> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_tags_for_routing/Maxspeed#Implicit_maxspeeds_set_by_.22trafficzone.22_and_.22highway.22
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I guess the danger with this again is presumptions!!!

Interesting.  But it's only a proposal at this stage.  For the time
being, I'd argue for adherence for the existing maxspeed tag value types
at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed

John