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

[John Smith]

2009/12/29 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
> in Germany there is indeed no speed limit ("Ende aller Streckenverbote"
> translates to "end of all restrictions") after this sign (on motorways and
> dual cariageways outside town limits), so there was a proposal for a tag
> some time ago, which was strongly rejected:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/maxspeed_none

I find the reasons it was rejected to be poorly thought out, as
Lulu-Ann wrote, untagged isn't the same thing as unsurveyed.

Instead of words, in programming -1 is often used to express no limit.