On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 6:05 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > sent from a phone > > > On 19. Sep 2018, at 21:16, Tobias Zwick <o...@westnordost.de> wrote: > > > > This is a good argument against tagging an explicit maxspeed=X when > > there is actually no speed limit sign around (X is what the OSM mapper > > by his knowledge about the law thinks should be the default limit here). > > > everything that you map will be according to your understanding of it, I > cannot see a good argument for not tagging implicit limits, even more as > there is judgement needed based on the situation (something humans can do > much better than computers). Every holder of a driving license should have > the requisites to recognize the speed limit on a given piece of road in > their local area, so it doesn’t require specialist knowledge. > Even then, those of us who *do* have specialist knowledge are more likely to contribute such information; why discourage that, further diseminating that knowledge in a more readily digestible format? > There actually is a speed limit on most roads, including those without > explicit signage. Omitting it will leave us in the situation that it really > becomes unclear whether there is no sign or nobody has bothered to enter it. > In Oregon and a good number of Oklahoma counties, that would be a for-certain thing on all public roads.
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