[OSM-talk] talk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 64

Patrick Kilian osm at petschge.de
Sun May 23 15:28:59 BST 2010


Hi,

> in looking at the maxspeed page, i see that in going from mph to
> km/h, rounding is always down. can someone speak to why that choice
> was made?

If you stick to _that_ value, you are legally save. If you go at the
limit calculated from round to the closest integer you might be going
(slightly) too fast. So basically it avoids the old "but my satnav told
me so"...



Patrick "Petschge" Kilian




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