However, you can't be certain, without personally checking the street in question, whether the street really has no speed limit signs, or whether the person who added the street to the map simply failed to add the speed limit tag.
-- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: David Murn <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:06:55 To: Talk Openstreetmap<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why quality is more important than routing speed On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 19:44 -0400, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Roy Wallace <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > How do you use speed limit tags when > > only 5% of the roads are tagged with them? > > > Think longer-term. > > Okay. How do you use speed limit tags when only 8% of the roads are > tagged with them? Well, legally in Australia anyway, any road not sign-posted with a limit, has an implied limit of 50. It would be nice to have a layer like noname, which shows ways without speed limit defined, to fix the data for exactly this reason. David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
