[Talk-GB] tagging for average speed cameras

[Graham Stewart]

The wiki (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dspeed_camera )
suggests that highway=speed_camera is only appied to nodes, as
obviously if it was applied to a way then it would replace the
highway=motorway/primary/secondary tag.

I can imagine two possible ways to handle average speed cameras:

1) Tag nodes on the way with the existing highway=speed_camera
tag and add a new speed_camera:type=average tag to categorise
them (possibly with a better tag name if someone would care to
offer it).

2) Propose something like traffic_calming=average_speed_check,
applied to the section of the way covered by cameras.

Thoughts?

Graham



On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:55 +0000, "Peter Miller"
<peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:

  Any thoughts about how should we tag highways equipped with
  average  speed camera enforcement?
  Do you think that it is sufficient to just add
  'highway=speed_camera' to the way in question?
  [1]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dspeed_came
  ra
  If so I will update the wiki with details that instant cameras
  should be on nodes and average cameras on ways.
  Regards,
  Peter
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References

1. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dspeed_camera
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