On 2012-12-03 20:27, Ole Nielsen wrote :
BTW, I'm not sure how useful the wet tag (old style or new style) is. You will need some damn precise and detailed weather forecasts for a route planner to be able to use such information. And usually it is only fairly short sections of highway having such tags so the impact is minimal (and in my experience drivers pretty much ignore such signs anyway).
answer from the wiki:
The *maxspeed*=* <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed> tag <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag> is used to define the maximum legal speed limit <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Speed_limits> for general traffic on a particular road, railway or waterway.
Maxspeed is not a speed to time routes but a legal information. By not mentioning a lower speed than normal, the information is incomplete and liable to be called dangerous in some places where wet speed is justified. Even more so for :snow and/or :ice maxspeed.

Speed to predict journey duration can be based on data recorded by some GPS manufacturers on some GPS devices of their customers. It can be very complicated, using location and time. The simplest tag would be speed:average.

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