[Talk-GB] maxspeed changes

[Peter Miller]

On 20 September 2012 16:27, Chris Hill <osm at raggedred.net> wrote:

> It seems that PeterITO is once again making changes to speed limits, this
> time changing limits that are tagged maxspeed=national to maxspeed=60 mph.
> The signs I see ( the round white sign with the black diagonal bar) does
> not say 60 mph it says national speed limit. Therefore I believe PeterITO
> is wrong to make the changes. Furthermore, he seems to making them over a
> wide area which makes it an undiscussed mass edits and should probably be
> reverted as such.
>
> PeterITO, please explain what you are doing.
>

I have been fixing up the very small number of the remaining non-numeric
content in maxspeed to conform with more common practice here in the UK and
across the world. My changes are also consistent with the wiki. I have not
lost the fact that the sign is a white sign with a black bar in my edits.
that information is now encoded in source:maxspeed or maxspeed:type.

Examples of the changes I have made:
I have changed maxspeed=48 to maxspeed=30 mph (also maxspeed=80 to
maxspeed=50 mph etc) where it is obvious that they were entered as km/h
I have changed a bunch of maxspeed=20 to maxspeed=20 mph when it is clear
that that is what was intended.
I have removed some maxspeed=30mph;50mph where it is not obvious where the
change happened before the merge.
I have changed a number of maxspeed=national to maxspeed=60 mph +
maxspeed:type=uk:nsl_single or to maxspeed=70 mph +
maxspeed:type=uk:nsl_dual or to uk:motorway as appropriate.
Similarly for maxspeed=nsl_single, nsl_dual and national_limit, all of
which occur in small quantities.
Also a bunch of 'maxspeed=70 mph + GB:motorway' in Sussex, which are now
maxspeed=70 mph + maxspeed:type=UK:motorway (this odd coding must have been
based on a misunderstanding of the wiki or a talk post I believe).
I have changed a few maxspeed=High Street to name=High Street and removed
the maxspeed tagging in a few places. Odd but true.

You can use this map to see most of the things I have changed on this
'Speed fixup' map on ITO Map. The bits I have been focusing on are in
bright colours.
http://www.itoworld.com/map/125#

You will see they represent a small percentage of the whole. This work was
achieved manually in Potlatch in a few hours and has created more
consistency for the tag.

I hope this puts your mind at rest. Apologies for not raising this on the
list first, however it started with a few tweeks to my area and then grew
as these things sometimes do. All in all I think we can be very pleased
with the grown in speed limit data over the past year.


Regards,


Peter (PeterIto)



Regards,


Peter




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