On 2010-10-04 at 10:57:19 +0100, Woll Newall wrote: > I wouldn't use 'average speed' for the tag, because it implies something > else, but that's what the OP chose for this thread. 'traffic speed' or > something like that would be better.
I'm not a native speaker, so any improvement on the tag names is welcome. > [...] > If I go to the nearest main road to my house in between the hours of > 16:00 and 18:00 every weekday, I can measure the speed at which the > traffic is moving. It will be consistent every day. [...] > In UK cities, I expect many roads are like this. [...] It is the same in many cities and town in Italy > Routing programs can't use heuristics to work out these speeds, they are > too dependent on local micro-conditions. But we can measure them. +1, expecially the times that are considered rush hour or not are very dependent on local conditions, and not easily calculated from known osm data. -- Elena ``of Valhalla'' homepage: http://www.trueelena.org _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
