On 29/10/2010 22:22, thomas van der veen wrote:
Hi,
I recently started mapping in South Hampshire and enjoying it, great
fun. I started adding some maxspeed tags to some roads as sometime the
type (primary, secondary, tertiary) doesn't always match the actual
speed limit of the road in question I noticed. Or sometime the speed
limit changes for certain stretches of road. To make this a bit easier
I thought that having a map (no pun intended ;) where I can see based
on the colour of the road what speed limit has been set in the
database (either implicit or explicit) . That way I can could easily
tell where it is incorrect and fix it.
Hi Thomas, welcome to OSM!
You might like to take note that nothing is implicit in OSM. There are
no "defaults" as renderers or other consumers of the map data are
unconstrained as to how they handle missing tags. Ideally all roads
should have maxspeed explicitly tagged, even if it could be implied from
the road class or other information. The maxspeed map that Lennard
referred to shows only the explicit maxspeed information; so the roads
which are missing this information are also immediately obvious.
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