[Talk-GB] Visualising speed limits

[Andy Street]

On Sat, 2010-10-30 at 01:40 +0100, Craig Wallace wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:22 +0100, "thomas van der veen"
> <th.vanderveen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Has someone actually done something like this already? Or does someone
> > would
> > like to join me and making a custom version of a map renderer that can do
> > this? should be relative simple, just looking for a couple of tags and
> > assign a colour accordingly. I have started looking at the Perl SVG
> > converter (couldn't get any of the XSLT converter produce proper SVG),
> > but it is a big beast.
> 
> One option: 
> Use JOSM, and download the area you are interested in, and use a JOSM
> map style that highlights things with different speed limits in
> different colours
> See for instructions: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles
> Note there are separate map styles for default maxspeed (kmh) and mph
> maxspeeds.
> 
> I find this is very useful while editing, as you can easily see how
> complete maxspeeds are for an area, and if there's any gaps etc.

Now that's interesting. I've been using JOSM for ages but I hadn't
spotted that feature hidden away in the prefs. Does anyone know if there
is a way to toggle the styles without having to restart JOSM?

Cheers,

Andy