[Talk-us] User randomly adding speed limits across the US

[Richard Welty]

On 12/1/14 12:41 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org 
> <mailto:baloo at ursamundi.org>> wrote:
>
>     Entering most counties you get a sign that's printed in FlySpeck 3
>     font that reads:
>
>     Unless otherwise posted speed limit
>     35 MPH
>     on all roads in Lincoln County
>
>
> I wonder if adding default maxspeed to the city admin boundaries would 
> be an easy way to post these city/county limits? The alternative is to 
> add the maxspeed to every highway segment in a city.
>
you'd have to add them to relations for many cases where boundaries are
shared; the question you have to ask yourself is whether processing these
would be a reasonable thing to expect of data consumers (routing engines
being an example where the consumer might reasonably want to know
the maxspeed values).

richard

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