On 5/23/10 12:22 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Patrick Kilian<[email protected]>  writes:
>> >  in looking at the maxspeed page, i see that in going from mph to
>> >  km/h, rounding is always down. can someone speak to why that choice
>> >  was made?
>>      
> If you stick to_that_  value, you are legally save. If you go at the
> limit calculated from round to the closest integer you might be going
> (slightly) too fast. So basically it avoids the old "but my satnav told
> me so"...
>    
which is a perfectly good theory, and very fussy in practice. i am 
unfamiliar with any
jurisdiction which enforces speed limits to fractions of km/h or mph.

richard


_______________________________________________
talk mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Reply via email to