[OSM-talk] Living with 'improvements'

[Lester Caine]

Janko Mihelić wrote:
> 2013/9/2 Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk <mailto:lester at lsces.co.uk>>:
>  > If the fix for this is to manually apply the national speed limit to every
>  > road, then OK, it's the first time anybody has suggested a fix and I'm
>  > willing to give it a try ...
>
> It's useful to give the source of the maxspeed. So if you have a sign, just put
> source:maxspeed=sign. If there is no sign, and source is the law, put
> source:maxspeed=uk:urban for maximum speed in urban areas, and
> source:maxspeed=uk:rural for rural areas. I don't know the laws in the UK.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:source:maxspeed
>
> That's the way we in Croatia mark maxspeed. That way if the default maxspeed
> changes, it will be possible to change it automatically.

The real point here Janko is there was a very major stop put to tagging ALL 
'national speed limit' roads with tags as such. Short term I've added them 
locally, but they will need to be removed to comply with the tagging guidelines 
for the UK! It's the routing algorithms that need to be fixed.

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