The school lights I'm aware of which refer to a maximum speed are advisory rather than mandatory. The actual legal speed limit remains the same.
Adam On Wed, 2 May 2018, 11:17 Brian Prangle, <bpran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just to further complicate matters there can also be conditional 20 mph > speed limits on roads passing schools, so they're default 30mph unless the > condition is met when they're 20 mph - condition is usually flashing > lights during school opening and closing times > > Regards > > Brian > > On 1 May 2018 at 20:11, Tobias Zwick <o...@westnordost.de> wrote: > >> Wow, this now is really helpful information! So good that you are on >> this list, this is exactly the kind of thing I was seeking when posting >> to here! >> Some replies and notes: >> >> 1. >> > It even more common to believe that Restricted Roads are not NSL >> > roads. NSL Restricted Roads are a type of NSL road. >> >> How does it matter though? What does the keyword "NSL" imply? >> >> 2. Also, what about dual carriageways (nsl_dual) that are lit? Will they >> then also default to 30 mph if there is no explicit sign that indeed one >> can go faster than that? >> >> 3. So, from the document, I understand an "LSL for individual roads" >> would be "maxspeed:type=sign" translated to OSM while "LSL for zones" >> would be "maxspeed:type=GB:zoneXX" translated to OSM. >> I see in "OSM speak", we drop the "LSL" for these, but do not for the >> "NSL" stuff. General question, not directed specifically to you: Isn't >> that inconsistent? >> >> 4. I see you use "UK:something". I think to use "GB:something" has >> somewhat established itself over UK by now, looking at taginfo. (Also, >> the ISO-3166 of United Kingdom is GB) >> >> 5. I see you use "UK:zone_XX" instead of "UK:zoneXX". Also looking at >> taginfo, I think that the latter somewhat established itself over the >> former now: About 100,000 usages of XX:zoneYY, about 34,000 usages of >> XX:zone:YY and about 0 usages of XX:zone_YY >> >> --- >> >> By the way, offtopic this: >> Do not assume though that the UK is the only country with unnecesary >> complex maxspeed legislation. Look at this flow-chart created by Minh >> Nguyễn after researching this for Ohio, US: :-D >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ohio/Map_features#Speed_limits >> >> Cheers >> Tobias >> >> On 01/05/2018 20:19, Jason Cunningham wrote: >> > I had a bit of an interest in tagging speed limits a few years back. >> > It's way more complicated than it should be in the UK. Researching led >> > me down a bit of a rabbit hole of legislation & case law. >> > >> > I made the following personal notes about UK limits and how to recognise >> > them, which I think is mostly correct. >> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Jamicu/UK_Speed_Limits >> > >> > I personally tagged restricted roads as maxspeed:type=UK:nsl_restricted >> > >> > All a bit of a mess though. >> > >> > Jason >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Talk-GB mailing list >> > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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