On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:35:48 +1100 Sam Couter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Peter Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I live on a "residential street" that has a 60km/h speed limit > > and so > > this street is not tagged as a residential street. > > Do you agree that it should be tagged residential despite the 60km/h > speed limit? its still a residential street, even with a 60km/h limit > > > It is used as at short cut for people in ajoining suburbs. > > So should it be tertiary? "Rat Run" is a more honest and accurate tag > > > I partly came to this view > > because rural roads were being wrongly tagged with 50km/h speed limits which > > they rarely are. > > The 50km/h speed limit tag was done by a bot, it's often inaccurate and > should be disregarded and/or corrected in these cases. Don't let the > 50km/h tag influence your considerations on whether to tag a road > residential or not. GRRRRRR bots, what ever I get involved in some hero bungs in a bot to make arbitrary changes. > > > I have been looking around my suburb but there are no 50km/ > > h signs either so can be tricky to know, especially if tracing. > > In the ACT 50km/h is the default if there are no signs. NSW posts "50 > km/h area" signs around the place to cover all roads within that area. > Not sure about other states that I rarely visit. In any case, you're > right that it's hard to know without some local presence. In northern Brisbane I have yet to see anything that shows you are moving into a 50kph default zone. mick _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
