On 1 November 2010 17:57, 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
Emily Laffray
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