On Monday, November 1, 2010, Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On 29/10/2010 22:22, thomas van der veen wrote:
>
>> You might like to take note that nothing is implicit in OSM. There are no
>> "defaults" as renderers or other consumers of the map data are unconstrained
>> as to how they handle missing tags. Ideally all roads should have maxspeed
>> explicitly tagged, even if it could be implied from the road class or other
>> information.
>
> I disagree quite strongly on this. I see little point in pointlessly
> adding tags when they there is a sensible default. For example, we
> don't need to tag 98% of roads as "oneway=no", and in the same way we
> don't need to tag 98% of UK residential roads as "maxspeed=30mph".
>
> Life's too short for that kind of tedium. That's why we (actually do)
> have implicit information in OSM.

+1

David

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