[OSM-talk] Living with 'improvements'

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2013/9/2 Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com>

> 2013/9/2 Lester Caine <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.
>


+1
we're also doing it like this in Italy, as this would permit to
automatically change the implicit maxspeed in case the default speed limit
would be changed...

cheers,
Martin
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