[OSM-talk] NoName

Gervase Markham gerv-gmane at gerv.net
Mon Sep 15 13:54:03 BST 2008


Frederik Ramm wrote:
> This would make our approach (tagging the speed limit to ways) 
> unfeasible, because if you are right then a road in the UK does not 
> *have* a speed limit - the speed limit depends entirely on the route you 
> take through the road network. For two people travelling down the same 
> road in the same type of vehicle, different speed limits might legally 
> apply.

a) Only if there is a bug in the signage, and
b) there is a standing rule in the UK that any urban road with lampposts
is 30mph by default, which nicely covers the centre of most towns.

Gerv





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