On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:55:06 +0100, Tom Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert Naylor wrote: >> On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:13:28 +0100, David Earl >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I also came across someone tagging maxpeed=NSL yesterday. If it gives >>> someone happiness, fine, but I don't really think it should be >>> necessary >>> to tag the default situation, only when there is an exception to the >>> general rule >> If the road has regular street lights then NSL isn't the default. >> I've mapped a number of raods round here with maxspeed=national, but >> only the ones with lit=yes. > > Yes it is, it's just that the NSL for such a road is 30mph. Assuming the > street lamps are close enough together that is. I may be wrong as I don't drive, but my understanding is that 30mph isn't a national speed limit. Its a default speed limit for a built up area, but not a national speed limit. This page seems to confirm this: http://www.abd.org.uk/know_your_speed_limits.htm -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
