[OSM-talk] maxspeed tagging Was: Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/7/30 John Smith <delta_foxtrot at yahoo.com>:
> --- On Thu, 30/7/09, Lennard <ldp at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> And in my own jurisdiction: to be able to set maxspeed=none
>> for bicycles
>> when there is no explicit maxspeed sign. :D
>
> bikes have the same speed limits here as every other thing on wheels, and even horses for that matter, and you can get tickets like all the other wheeled vehicles and even get done for drink driving on horses and ride on lawn mowers.

explicit speedlimits here as well, but Lennard was writing about
implicit speedlimits (in town=50 and the like). Those are not valid
for bicycles, but this is IMHO also not a very important issue, as
most bikers don't get beyond 50km/h.

cheers,
Martin