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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