Was the speed limit already the responsibility of the regional
governments? Or was there a constitutional change to delegate that power
to them?
If they already had the power, the source:maxspeed value should not have
referred to BE but to Flanders specifically (BE:VL?).
On 2018-01-23 10:00, Marc Gemis wrote:
> We had this situation last year, when Flanders (northern part of
> Belgium) decided to change the speed limit from 90 km/h to 70 km/h.
> Brussels and Wallonia kept the default on 90 for rural roads.
> Not only was this for a part of the country, but many roads already
> had signs for maxspeed 70 or zone 70 before the change. So we had to
> change the source:maxspeed as well for all roads, to indicate that it
> is now on regional level.
> Some roads that were 90 remained 90 after the official changes, but
> got (or already had) signs.
>
> So many more changes were needed than just retagging roads with
> source:maxspeed=BE:rural from 90 to 70.
>
> regards
>
> m
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
> <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: 2018-01-16 23:03 GMT+01:00 Kevin Kenny
> <kevin.b.kenny+...@gmail.com>:
> ...I've never tried to tag any of that sort of regulatory information, but
> I can imagine that applying it to all the streets in the town would be both
> tedious and unmanageable (the latter because if the town were to change the
> ordinance, it would mean updates to many hundreds of highway segments).
>
> While I agree it is not the perfect solution, we are trying to deal with
> similar provisions (default implicit maxspeed by context) through additional
> tags which refer to the legislation. E.g. we add explicit maxspeed tags to
> roads inside settlements where the maxspeed is implicit (within the city
> limit signs), and add source:maxspeed tags (e.g. value IT:urban in this
> case) for the unlikely case, that the law changes, so we can automatically
> select all ways with this referrer and change their maxspeed in one go,
> without needing to care for signedposted maxspeeds with the same value
> (because they should have source:maxspeed=sign or maybe nothing). At least
> this is the theory, so far we haven't needed it.
>
> Even if your regulations are not national or by the state but only in your
> county or township, you could add some additional tag that refers to the
> ordinance, so if it changes you can change all those cases in one go.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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