I've also found the maxspeed colouring on the graphview JOSM plugin useful for visualising maxspeed data:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Graphview Cheers, Gregory > -----Original Message----- > From: talk-gb-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-gb- > boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Craig Wallace > Sent: 30 October 2010 01:40 > To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Visualising speed limits > > On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:22 +0100, "thomas van der veen" > <th.vanderv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Has someone actually done something like this already? Or does > someone > > would > > like to join me and making a custom version of a map renderer that > can do > > this? should be relative simple, just looking for a couple of tags > and > > assign a colour accordingly. I have started looking at the Perl SVG > > converter (couldn't get any of the XSLT converter produce proper > SVG), > > but it is a big beast. > > One option: > Use JOSM, and download the area you are interested in, and use a JOSM > map style that highlights things with different speed limits in > different colours > See for instructions: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Styles > Note there are separate map styles for default maxspeed (kmh) and mph > maxspeeds. > > I find this is very useful while editing, as you can easily see how > complete maxspeeds are for an area, and if there's any gaps etc. > > Craig > -- > Craig Wallace > craig...@fastmail.fm > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: > http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb