On Monday, November 1, 2010, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Colin Smale <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 29/10/2010 22:22, thomas van der veen wrote: > >> 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. > > I disagree quite strongly on this. I see little point in pointlessly > adding tags when they there is a sensible default. For example, we > don't need to tag 98% of roads as "oneway=no", and in the same way we > don't need to tag 98% of UK residential roads as "maxspeed=30mph". > > Life's too short for that kind of tedium. That's why we (actually do) > have implicit information in OSM.
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