[OSM-talk] Map Features, maxspeed and maplint

Simon Ward simon at bleah.co.uk
Mon Oct 6 00:25:07 BST 2008


On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 02:09:26PM +0100, Shaun McDonald wrote:
> All units in osm should be the metric value, unless the units have been 
> name spaced. Whenever I enter mph units, I use the tag maxspeed:mph=30 
> etc as this is the most accurate way of representing the data.

This is my method too.  I have converted before, but always included
both maxspeed=* (~km/h) and maxspeed:mph=* (mph)

Simon
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