[OSM-talk] Why quality is more important than routing speed

[David Murn]

On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 19:44 -0400, Anthony wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Roy Wallace <waldo000000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org>
>         wrote:
>         >
>         > How do you use speed limit tags when
>         > only 5% of the roads are tagged with them?
>         
>         
>         Think longer-term.
> 
> Okay.  How do you use speed limit tags when only 8% of the roads are
> tagged with them?

Well, legally in Australia anyway, any road not sign-posted with a
limit, has an implied limit of 50.  It would be nice to have a layer
like noname, which shows ways without speed limit defined, to fix the
data for exactly this reason.

David