[Talk-GB] Implicit speed limits: What to tag in built-up areas?

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Wed May 2 11:48:28 UTC 2018


Single or dual carriageway has nothing to do with restricted access. It is whether or not each direction is a different physically separate carriageway. The division can be a strip of grass.

Phil (trigpoint) 

On 2 May 2018 12:34:56 BST, Tobias Zwick <osm at westnordost.de> wrote:
>Also,
>
>6. Did you come up with the term "restricted" or is the term actually
>used within the same context as single / dual carriageway in the UK
>legislation? Because, that term is usually used for quite another thing
>in OSM context (restricted access roads). But, as long as the nsl_*
>taggings in themselves are consistent (in that they use the terms from
>the UK legislation), that's fine, I guess. Otherwise, we should perhaps
>look for a more fitting name before I cast it into code.
>
>Tobias
>
>On 01/05/2018 20:19, Jason Cunningham wrote:
>> I had a bit of an interest in tagging speed limits a few years back.
>> It's way more complicated than it should be in the UK. Researching
>led
>> me down a bit of a rabbit hole of legislation & case law.
>> 
>> I made the following personal notes about UK limits and how to
>recognise
>> them, which I think is mostly correct.
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Jamicu/UK_Speed_Limits
>> 
>> I personally tagged restricted roads asĀ 
>maxspeed:type=UK:nsl_restricted
>> 
>> All a bit of a mess though.
>> 
>> Jason
>> 
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