On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 07:43 +0100, WessexMario wrote:
With this maxspeed debate, aren't we confusing two different data items.?
maxspeed is defined as the legal speed limit, but the speed we are discussing here is an average transit speed for routing purposes.
The 'real' maxspeed would be useful in applications like excessive speed warning, or notification of changes to the limit while in transit, even (on the future) as a physical limit for automated vehicles; as the average transit speed is a different value and is what is needed for routing
Shouldn't a separate data item (eg "routingspeed") be used, leaving maxspeed for what it is, the legal limit?
Do we even need a tag for this when we can just glean it from the GPX traces now that folks uploading traces can choose to keep speed data in tact?