Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-10-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 October 2013 10:15, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) < robert.whittaker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 September 2013 08:12, Peter Miller > wrote: > > On 29 September 2013 10:05, Colin Smale wrote: > >> How about saying that 70mph can only be valid on a way tagged as > one-way? > > > > In a word

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-10-02 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 30 September 2013 08:12, Peter Miller wrote: > On 29 September 2013 10:05, Colin Smale wrote: >> How about saying that 70mph can only be valid on a way tagged as one-way? > > In a word, I believe the answer is 'no'. I say that because the legal > definition of a dual-carriageway appears to be

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-30 Thread Peter Miller
On 29 September 2013 10:05, Colin Smale wrote: > ** > > Peter, > > I say this because the '70 mph' value for maxspeed can only be used case > where a road is a dual-carriageway. > > What about link roads and slip roads? Sometimes they seem to go on for > miles without an obvious "other carriagewa

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-29 Thread Ed Loach
Peter wrote: > As such, it seems unreasonable to ask a new mapper to great a situation requiring > a court case for every ambiguous section of road in the country to establish if they > are dual carriageways or single carriageways. This is why I suggest we use > GB:national to indicate that the

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-29 Thread Colin Smale
Peter, > I say this because the '70 mph' value for maxspeed can only be used case > where a road is a dual-carriageway. What about link roads and slip roads? Sometimes they seem to go on for miles without an obvious "other carriageway". Yet the correct maxspeed is often 70mph, is it not? Ho

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-29 Thread Peter Miller
To attempt to summarise the situation: - The maximum legal speed for any vehicle should be a number in maxspeed following by " mph". - There should also be information available to say if this speed is defined as a number in a circle or a black and white sign - There is also benefi

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-28 Thread Nick Allen
Peter, After your first post on this, my initial thought was that you were correct and the simpler tag you were proposing was enough. I started following your proposal, but I've thought a little more & feel that the more involved 'GB:nsl_single' type tag is actually needed & I'll be going bac

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-26 Thread Andrew
Philip Barnes writes: > > Routers in my opinion, over use road classification and seen to assume that trunk is some sort of expressway, which in most cases they aren't. Primaries, B roads and tertiarys, many of which are declassified trunk are just as quick, often quicker as they take a shorter

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-26 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 26 September 2013 12:59, Philip Barnes wrote: > Vehicles to which other limits apply are usually driven by professionals I'd wager that far more cars-towing-caravans are driven by amateurs than professionals. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk __

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-26 Thread Philip Barnes
Routers cannot be expected to know the intricacies of every countrys spotted limit legislation, it would therefore be wrong to remove the default car/motorcycle speed limits. Vehicles to which other limits apply are usually driven by professionals and should therefore be using specialist tools,

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-26 Thread Jason Cunningham
The subject of UK speed limits and problems of mapping them has come up a couple of times on these lists. Firstly we have a problem because many users want a single numerical value in the maxspeed tag, despite UK legislation having a range of speed limits for road dependent on the physical nature

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 le

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 t

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-

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 such

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 proba

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

2013-09-23 Thread Peter Miller
Apologies for being slow to pick this one up. I was in private discussion with Andy on this using OSM messaging which appeared to have come to a conclusion. I now notice that it had moved to talk-gb. For avoidance of doubt, all my edits have been fully manual. Here is the explanation I gave to An

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-23 Thread Philip Barnes
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 22:09 +0100, Andy Street wrote: > I'd agree that maxspeed=national is insufficient as it is impossible > to tell what speed you can do in a built up area. National speed limits rarely apply in built up areas, other than sometimes on faster feeder roads. The built up area limi

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-21 Thread Andy Street
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:36:00 +0100 SomeoneElse wrote: > I've noticed that locally a number of "GB:nsl_single", "GB:nsl_dual", > and "GB:motorway" "maxspeed:type" values have been consolidated into > "gb:national", so that that gone from nowhere to being the second > most-used value: >From a q

Re: [Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-21 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 21 September 2013 00:36, SomeoneElse wrote: > I've noticed that locally a number of "GB:nsl_single", "GB:nsl_dual", and > "GB:motorway" "maxspeed:type" values have been consolidated into > "gb:national", so that that gone from nowhere to being the second most-used > value: I don't recall there

[Talk-GB] National speed limit changes

2013-09-20 Thread SomeoneElse
I've noticed that locally a number of "GB:nsl_single", "GB:nsl_dual", and "GB:motorway" "maxspeed:type" values have been consolidated into "gb:national", so that that gone from nowhere to being the second most-used value: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/maxspeed:type#values An example i