Richard Fairhurst wrote: >Sent: 20 September 2007 10:48 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Speed limits > >Dave Stubbs wrote: > >> I came across a speed limit in Windsor Great Park a few weeks back for >38mph >> which is a little odd... I'm not going to encode that as maxspeed=61.1 as >> that would seem silly. > >There are signs on a few canals in Leicestershire which say, in a nice >little red circle, "6.43 km/h". I kid you not. > >The Environment Agency did it the sensible way. When they introduced a >speed limit on the Thames, they purposefully chose 5mph because it'd >be easy to sign as 8km/h if that was ever required. > >Anyway, back to the point, I'm not sure about the point of using >"maxspeed_units" as a separate tag - it's adding an extra point of >failure (what if the tag's removed? what if a client sees one tag and >ignores the other?) and it's more of a faff to edit. Most importantly, >it's another thing to remember - OSM tagging is difficult enough for >the beginner without expanding the vocabulary needlessly. >
Point taken. maxspeed=30mph or maxspeed=60km/h does it in one, or should that be kmph do you think. Cheers Andy Andy Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-gb
