[Talk-GB] inferred single-carriageway NSL?

Andy Street mail at andystreet.me.uk
Wed Mar 16 17:10:56 GMT 2011


On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 16:48 +0000, Peter Miller wrote:
> 
> 
> On 13 March 2011 15:55, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>         On 13/03/11 15:41, Ed Loach wrote:
>         
>                         You've probably seen the numerous edits by
>                         chriscf. Can anyone
>                         explain
>                         the purpose of these edits&  what the the tags
>                         below even mean?
>                 
>                 I can try, but
> 
> The bot appears to be adding a source:maxspeed to roads that have
> speed limits of 60 mph and 70 mph deducing that these are actually
> 'national speed limits' rather than numeric speed limits. I am not
> aware of there being any numeric 60 and 70 mph limits in the UK so
> that does seem to be a reasonable sound deduction actually.

It might be a sound deduction for 70mph but not for 60mph. One example
of a numeric 60mph speed limit is the A31 over the Hogg's Back near
Guildford:

http://osm.org/go/eurRbMm

Regards,

Andy





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