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

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Tue Aug 22 16:19:13 UTC 2017



On 22 August 2017 14:46:33 BST, Richard <ricoz.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>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
>
Isn"t that going to be rather subjective?

Phil (trigpoint) 



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