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

Tobias Knerr osm at tobias-knerr.de
Fri Jul 31 11:59:07 BST 2009


John Smith wrote:
>> It's basically there to decide whether to use colons as in
>> your example
>> or switch to something like
>> maxspeed[wet][forward][motorcycle]. Why?
>> Well, because those time conditions tend to have colons in
> 
> You split based on the equal sign and it doesn't matter that the time condition or key uses colons.

Read the proposal first, please. It requires that you add the condition
as _part_ of the key, for example

bicycle[10:00-18:00] = no

It has been suggested to add them to the value instead, but you will
always need to deal with substrings of either key or value string.

Tobias Knerr




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