[OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

[Stephen Hope]

2009/12/27 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with
> racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish, everyone else
> is limited to 100, how exactly do you map that? (and I saw one such
> sign only the day before yesterday).
>

Umm, actually that one's a bit of an urban myth.  The sign (and it's a
UN standard sign, not just Australian) means "end of local speed
limits, back to State/Country default speed limit."  The racing
licence thing comes from very old rule in NSW where they didn't
enforce the limit (for anybody) as long as you were not driving at
"excessive or dangerous" speeds, and no longer applies.  Somebody once
used the "I'm a racing driver, it's not excessive for me" excuse and
got off.

As long as you know the state default speed limit, this is easy to
tag.  It is exactly the same as a sign with that limit.

Stephen