[OSM-talk] Surveying

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

On Montag 19 November 2007, David James wrote:
> What about speed limits?
>
> In the area I've been looking at, I've been trying to locate speed limit
> signs at the edges of villages, break the ways at the speed limit signs,
> and then apply appropriate maxspeed= tags to the separate ways. Am I
> wasting my effort here (as no-one else has yet mentioned speed limits).
>
> I have a niggling feeling that I'd like to be able to tag the points at
> which the speed limit signs are located, but I can't see a way to do it as
> there's a direction associated with the speed limit as well as the
> location (the transition from one speed on one side of the sign to another
> speed on the other side).

Normally you would tag the part of a way with the speed limit. If you have one 
of the rare cases where the two directions have a different speed limit; 
you'll have to separate the way into two lanes and put the appropriate speed 
limit to each lane.

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