[Talk-GB] trunk roads

[Shaun McDonald]

On 28 Mar 2007, at 21:01, Caroline Ford wrote:

> Did you want to send this to the list? It defaults to offlist replying
> which is annoying me greatly..

I am so used to the reply only to list, that is used for all the  
OpenOffice.org lists. (I am on quite a few of them, so it become a  
habit).
Thanks for pointing it out.

Shaun

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> CarolineOn Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:51 +0100, Shaun McDonald wrote:
>> On 28 Mar 2007, at 20:12, Caroline Ford wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 19:45 +0100, Andy Allan wrote:
>>>> On 3/28/07, OJW <streetmap at blibbleblobble.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 09:34, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>>>>>> I'd love to see average_speed=n, derived from real-world GPS
>>>>>> data as
>>>>>> collected by OSM users.
>>>>>
>>>>> The roads would all be speed=18mph if they averaged our GPS
>>>>> tracklogs, given
>>>>> how many people use bikes to do mapping...
>>>>
>>>> I reckon you could get a multi-hump speed distribution, and work  
>>>> out
>>>> which peak was walking, cycling and driving (although detecting
>>>> cyclists weaving past stationary traffic would be tricky!) Massive
>>>> amounts of open data will eventually find their way into the  
>>>> hands of
>>>> someone very clever, and they'll figure it out I'm sure.
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>> You'd need time of day data too. There are probably too many  
>>> variables
>>> for the amount of data we have (currently)
>>>
>>> Caroline
>>>
>> There are some places now, such as around schools that have a
>> temporary speed restriction to 20mph, while the rest of the time they
>> have the speed limit of 30mph. Do we want to map this too? I think
>> there is enough to map just now, without going into specifics like  
>> that.
>>
>> Shaun
>>
>>
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