[OSM-talk] zones for motorway/in town/outof town?

[Jacek Konieczny]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:16:05PM +0200, MP wrote:
> I wonder, can we have at some place (wiki?) some definition file that
> will specify these per-country default limits in some machine-readable
> way?
> 
> This could look like this:
> 
> country(cz) {
> 
>  maxspeed=90
> 
>  (highway=motorway|trunk) {
>   maxspeed=130
>   foot=no
>   bicycle=no
>  }
> 
>  is_in_polygon(place=city|hamlet|village|town) {
>   maxspeed=50
>  }
> 
>  is_in_polygon(place=city|hamlet|village|town) && (highway=motorway|trunk) {
>   maxspeed=80
>  }
> 
> }

I like this idea. This is much better that trying to force adding extra
tagging to OSM, when the information can be derived from existing tags.

Greets,
        Jacek