<html><head></head><body style="font-family: Monospace;"><div>Hi</div><div><br></div><div>Seems like a good idea.</div><div><br></div><div>In the British Isles I find 359 maxspeed:advisory and no maxspeed:practical.</div><div>maxspeed:practical was rejected:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Practical_maxspeed">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Practical_maxspeed</a></div><div><br></div><div>but seems to be accepted:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:practical">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxspeed:practical</a></div><div><br></div><div>I'll do a patch for this sometime soon.</div><div><br></div><div>Ticker</div><div><br></div><div>On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 08:28 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div>The mkgmap default style doesn't understand maxspeed:practical.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks. I was unclear on this.</div><div><br></div><div>I would suggest that mkgmap should in the default style use the first</div><div>one of these that is defined:</div><div><br></div><div> maxspeed:practical</div><div> maxspeed:advisory (yellow sign, in the US, not a requirement, but advice)</div><div> maxspeed (legal limit)</div><div><br></div><div>I am unclear on if advisory is used in non-US places. Here we often</div><div>e.g. have yellow "45" signs on curves on roads with "55" limit (white)</div><div>signs, and on exit ramps (slip roads in en_GB, *_link in osm).</div><div>Sometimes the advisory speeds are sensible, some times they are way too</div><div>low and occasionally they are too high. A great case for using</div><div>practical to fix them.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I would expect this to be quite necessary in rural UK and IE, as it</div><div>seems there is a tradition of 100 km/h or 60 mph outside town centers,</div><div>but at times roads often narrower/twisty such that at least I didn't</div><div>think it wise.</div><div><br></div><div>(The US doesn't do this so much; very rarely is the legal limit unsafe.</div><div>There are dirt roads where :practical should be used, though.)</div></blockquote></body></html>