[Talk-GB] tagging for average speed cameras

[Robert Scott]

On Friday 04 March 2011, Peter Miller 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?
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dspeed_camera
> 
> If so I will update the wiki with details that instant cameras should be on
> nodes and average cameras on ways.

Dare I say it, this _is_ the right situation to use a relation. The camera nodes between which the average speed is calculated could be added to the relation in the correct order.

Then again, this is the sort of detail that I'm sceptical we'll ever reach in openstreetmap in a remotely uniform (i.e. useful) way, so I'm not sure of the value of this level of complexity.


robert.

p.s. Then again again, the germans managed to map their whole power line network (?) didn't they?