kph? On 9/20/07, Andy Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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