I wonder if 15 mph in a school zone and 25 mph in a residential
area are some sort of federal standard? The source tag might be
useful but not much different than other states.
The federal government doesn't have anything to say about speed
limits (in states), as the US Constitution leaves such things to the
states. An exception is on federal land, such as national parks or
BLM land, where specific parts of the US Code regarding speed limits
DO apply. This is why you can get a speeding or parking ticket at
Yosemite, but you won't deal with California to fight it or pay the
fine: Yosemite is not part of California. Surrounded by it, yes.
Part of it, no.
My GPS (a still-tough Garmin 60 CSx) does an excellent job of
calculating Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) when routing. It does so
by assuming speed limits for all road segments in the current route
and guesses I'll travel at those speeds. This is done without
assigning a speed limit to each and every road segment, instead
implementing a simple table lookup (freeway: assume 65 MPH,
residential: assume 25 MPH...). This is a highly efficient solution
that keeps the data light and the calculation short and simple, so it
quickly produces an accurate ETA result.
Though I don't find incorrect (or offensive) the suggestion of
tagging prima facie limits with the tagging syntax specified, I find
speed limit tagging to be most useful where there are posted signs
with a specific number. That's just me, though.
SteveA
California
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