[OSM-talk] ferry route speed

David Groom reviews at pacific-rim.net
Mon Sep 1 23:58:54 BST 2008


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gervase Markham" <gerv-gmane at gerv.net>
To: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] ferry route speed


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> David Groom wrote:
>> When tagging ferry routes is anyone tagging ferry speed, and  if so do 
>> you
>> simply add maxspeed = ??  to thr route?
>
> maxspeed is for speed limits. Unless the coastguard has imposed one,
> please don't use that tag :-) If it's a particular single route, why not
> "time" or "duration"?

I have no particular views either way, just that as maxspeed was already in 
use I thought that routing applications would understand it, whereas another 
tag such as "time" or duration" would mean routing applications having to 
adapt to this.

Having said that its much easier to know the time a ferry crossing takes 
rather than work out the speed of the crossing

david


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> Gerv
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