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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-12-01 18:41 GMT+01:00 Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>:

> 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.



we're doing the latter around here. It seems a huge redundancy
introduction, and indeed it is, but it works ;-)
Keep in mind how osm works. This way of doing it has the advantage that it
is easy to understand and maintain, because having the default added to
some boundary only would require mappers to look for this boundary
(typically you will just download a small chunk of the city and do your
edits there, you probably won't have this boundary poly in your editor).
And there might be more than one (overlapping) boundary polygons, if those
had different maxspeeds tagged it will not be much fun to find the problem.

cheers,
Martin
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