[OSM-talk] Highway=trunk : harmonization between countries ?

Richard ricoz.osm at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 13:46:33 UTC 2017


On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 08:40:13AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> Two points:
> 
>   Speed limit does not describe the speeds that reasonably responsible
>   real people actually drive on roads.  The UK/IE notion of 60 mph on
>   all roads out of village centers is one example.  Another is in the US
>   where there are many roads signed 65 mph where traffic normally moves
>   at 80 mph.  So, what I think OSM needs a few things:
> 
>     - A) a "typical_speed" tag, to be used by routers instead of
>       speed_limit

called differently, but this is it:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:practical

Richard



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