yes, it was. But nobody bothered since the speed was the same in the whole country. I do not know when it was moved to the regional government, even not whether this was before or after the first source:maxspeed was entered in OSM>
m. On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
