>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Miller >Sent: 20 September 2012 17:23 >To: Gregory Williams >Cc: Chris Hill; Talk GB >Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes > >>On 20 September 2012 16:59, Gregory Williams <[email protected]> wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Chris Hill [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: 20 September 2012 16:27 >>> To: Talk GB >>> Subject: [Talk-GB] maxspeed changes >>> >>> It seems that PeterITO is once again making changes to speed limits, this time >>> changing limits that are tagged maxspeed=national to >>> maxspeed=60 mph. The signs I see ( the round white sign with the black >>> diagonal bar) does not say 60 mph it says national speed limit. >>> Therefore I believe PeterITO is wrong to make the changes. Furthermore, he >>> seems to making them over a wide area which makes it an undiscussed mass >>> edits and should probably be reverted as such. >>> >>> PeterITO, please explain what you are doing. >>Presumably Peter is also adding source:maxspeed=UK:nsl_single, therefore >>preserving the fact that the maxspeed data represents the national speed >>limit at that point, rather than being explicitly signed as 60 mph? >>Certainly that's how I tag national speed limits on single carriageways here >>in Kent. > > Correct. I did however use alternative maxspeed:type at times which also > appears in the DB and which I feel is better than source:maxspeed which to > my mind should be used for 'source:maxspeed=survey' or > 'source:maxspeed=local authority spreadsheet-Dec12' or similar. > However... lets leave that discussion to another day but either way not > information has been lost by my edits and the data has been made more > consistent.
That seems logical enough reasoning to me. I've just fallen into using the source:maxspeed pattern really, but could quite easily use maxspeed:type instead. > Fyi, I changed one instance of 'maxspeed=30 mph;30mph' in Kent to > 'maxspeed=30 mph' and left the instance of 'maxspeed=12 mph' alone > (even though it does seem a bit unlikely). Yep, I guess I or someone else merged two road sections together and just didn't notice the subtle difference in the tags. I used to use the 30mph form but now use 30 mph, so it's fairly easy for this to have accidentally happened here in East Kent. I know where the maxspeed=12 mph is (at least I guess we're talking about the same instance :) ). It's a private estate on the edge of Whitstable and really does have that unusual speed limit. > Re ITO Map, we have recently enabled 'clicks' on many of them. Click on any > coloured elements on the speed limit fixup map to see what the tagging > currently shows. Many other maps also now support clicks. That could be useful sometimes. Thanks. > Finally. Be aware that we are still in the process of updating ITO Map following > the license change. If it is not updated tonight it should hopefully do so tomorrow. > It should then update daily. As such the speed limit fixup map still shows the > state of OSM before I made any changes. I thought that'd be the case. You've got much more processing to handle than when I switched over my cycle parking heat map over to data post the license change, so I'm not surprised that it's taking several days. I look forward to seeing the updates in all of the ITO products for OSM. I use them frequently, and have even used them to help make my case when writing planning representations :-) Gregory _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
