Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-24 Thread SomeoneElse
Hi Peter, Thanks for replying here. Peter Miller wrote: So...on the basis that we should tag what is there, we see a white sign with a black diagonal line on it then that is what we should indicate. We do of course interpret that by putting what we believe if the correct legal speed limit

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-24 Thread Richard Mann
IIRC a lot of those tags were added by Chriscf, without any local surveying, and since the value was derived from the speed limit, there's little added value in having separate maxspeed:type values. It's just clutter. What matters to the data user is the maxspeed tag. The maxspeed:type tag is

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-24 Thread Barry Cornelius
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Richard Mann wrote: So...on the basis that we should tag what is there, we see a white sign with a black diagonal line on it then that is what we should indicate. We do of course interpret that by putting what we believe if the correct legal speed limit in maxspeed. As

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-24 Thread SomeoneElse
Richard Mann wrote: IIRC a lot of those tags were added by Chriscf, without any local surveying I think that you're thinking about these: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/81529513/history (a slightly different case) Cheers, Andy ___

[Talk-GB] Trace upload oddity

2013-09-24 Thread ael
I have just uploaded a single trace. But I am getting the remarkable message: You have 385 traces waiting for upload. Please consider waiting for these to finish before uploading any more, so as not to block the queue for other users. Not so. 385 is the total number of traces I have ever uploaded

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-24 Thread Peter Miller
Barry, Are you saying that a road marked with a numeric sign of '60 mph' defines a different legal maximum speed for some vehicle types from a single carriageway road marked with a white sign and a black diagonal? For example that a bus/coach/car+trailer/HGV less that 7.5 tonnes are only be able

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-24 Thread Barry Cornelius
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Peter Miller wrote: Are you saying that a road marked with a numeric sign of '60 mph' defines a different legal maximum speed for some vehicle types from a single carriageway road marked with a white sign and a black diagonal? For example that a bus/coach/car+trailer/HGV