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

[Roy Wallace]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:44 AM, 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?

I don't share your pessimism. I've mapped maxspeed=* quite a bit.
Compared to name=*, it's no harder to map, and it is of increasing
importance. I think we'll get far more than 8% of road names tagged in
the long-term future, and I think the same of maxspeed=*.