On 15/10/2009, at 03.23, Alan Mintz wrote: > Example: > > On California state boundary, I would tag the most common values: > > (speeds shown in mph here for ease - converted to kph when actually > tagged) > > maxspeed=25 > maxspeed:motorway=65 > maxspeed:primary=45 > maxspeed:secondary=40 > maxspeed:tertiary=35
[snip] > On city boundaries for Rancho Cucamonga and Irvine, because some > roads are > wider and most are faster, I might tag (again in mph): > > maxspeed:primary=50 > maxspeed:secondary=45 > maxspeed:tertiary=40 > lanes:primary=7 [snip] > Does this seem OK? Yep, I think it looks just right! Regarding the question of whether roads should be split on adminstrative boundaries, this is something that client programs of the database really *ought* to be able to do automatically, so in theory it's not something that should be done by users (it will likely be incompletely done, anyway.) Cheers, Morten _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies

