Hello, On 17 June 2014 11:24, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote: > I disagree with just using a number, the tags are there to indicate that the > mapper had interpreted the speed limit from the type of road. > Should the limits change they make finding the limits that require changes > easier.
How do users find out what the maxspeed actually is there if they don't have any external database, but just OSM dump? What you describe is more a task source:*=* tags solve. > The number should be tagged, and I would not expect a data consumer to use > maxspeed tags, they are useful for validation. Your expectation don't correspond the reality: these data are used very often, so they need to be in a usable form. -- Cheers, Andrew _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
