2015-04-09 8:16 GMT+02:00 Lukas Sommer <sommer...@gmail.com>: > Please note that speed limits are _not_ interpreted by regions. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed states that the unit > has to be added explicitly when it’s not km/h – independent of the > region where you are mapping. >
This is just a suggestion in the wiki, everybody using the data will ultimately have to decide on their own how to extrapolate missing information. In Europe I'd probably assume km/h as default, but if I ran across a maxspeed=55 in the US I'd assume those to be mph. cheers, Martin
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