[Talk-us] Cool ITO World US and Canada coverage

[Richard Welty]

On 3/26/11 7:51 AM, Mike N wrote:
> On 3/26/2011 12:58 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:
>> Great tool for visualizing speed limits
>
>   The US convention of 'xx mph' has proved difficult for many map 
> consumers.   I have bugged all the other "Speed Limit Visualizer" 
> providers, but no one has come up with a functional speed limit 
> visualizer in MPH until this one.    I'm trying to figure out the 
> color scheme though.
there's a key button in the lower left corner.

>    At least I can use the display to plan video mapping to gather 
> missing speed limit info.
>
>   As a side note: the speed limit in mph has confounded the Skobbler 
> designers - possibly because their data is filtered via Cloudmade. 
> There are many roads already fully tagged with maxspeed that get 
> Mapdust reports of missing speed limits.
>
there are some visualizers that appear to have problems with speeds 
where the last digit is not 0,
e.g. common speeds like 25 mph, 35 mph, 45 mph.

a helpful visualizer for the US would be one that flags speeds w/o a 
units tag (kph
default). the mph option was added to the wiki in recent memory, and i 
for one
tagged a lot of US roads with kph values before i became aware of the 
update to the
maxspeed entry in the wiki. i switch them to mph as i see them, but 
there are lots i
may not stumble over for a very long time, if ever.

richard