Hi Richard, Assuming the data quality is good and the existing way does not have a speed limit, I don't see any reason not do an automated edit.
Leave the MapRoulette for the areas where the data and OSm speed limit don't match? Jason On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: >> Outline: >> A proposal for improvement of the maxspeed tag by including posted >> speed limit data from managers of vehicle fleets. > > Since the first mention on this list, this data source has morphed a bit. > > Where I thought the data was limited to Canada and USA, I have learned > that data may come from drivers and fleets that are global. That's > kind of cool. > > My initial suspicion that drivers and their fleet managers would not > game the data appears to hold. The anomalous data I saw "121" was not > a gaming of a 120 km/h speed limit, but an approximation of a 75 MPH > speed limit. > > There is only weak motivation for drivers and fleet managers to adjust > speed limits down, so we might not get corrections by this method if a > speed limit is legitimately reduced. > > The fleet managers currently have no way to communicate their vehicle > type. That is, they might submit a maxspeed:hgv, (or other > conditional) but they won't be able to communicate that to us. There > is a ticket to add that information in future, in the data publisher > software. I don't know an ETA. > > Questions: > 1) I think that these speed limit submissions might be suitable for a > MapRoulette challenge, as long as users limit their challenges to > their local area, so they may apply some local knowledge. Does that > sound good to you? > > 2) Do you have comments after reviewing the extent of the data shown > in this link from several weeks ago? > http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/untitled-map_8290 > > > Best regards, > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > Imports@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
