[OSM-talk] Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

[Roy Wallace]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:46 AM, John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- On Wed, 29/7/09, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > the other examples are very questionable :
> > "traffic_sign=maxspeed:30"
>
> That does look questionable if for no other reason that maxspeed should be used consistently so routing doesn't have to look for 50 different tags or parse all tags looking for those with maxspeed in them.

To me, that looks like somebody is marking *the sign*, as opposed to
marking *the maxspeed restriction*. Seems fine to me - because the
sign does physically exist on the ground - but the restriction should
also be mapped, using maxspeed=30.