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+/- source:maxspeed Description Records either the speed limit type ('sign','IT:urban' etc) or information about how and when the data was sourced. Group Annotation Element help Useful combination maxspeed=* Tools for this tag Combinations worldwide in Australia/Oceania in Europe (list) in Asia (list) in Central America (list) in South America (list) in Africa (list)  (via overpass turbo - help)

The source:maxspeed=* tag is currently used for two distinct purposes.

See Speed limits for more details

Usage

Main: Speed limits, and talk:Speed limits for more information and discussion.

Some people use it to store information about the type of the speed limit for which the numeric value is given in maxspeed=*. This use is currently more common and has been in use longer. For example:

• 'sign' (to indicate that a sign indicates the exact speed in km/h or mph)
• 'IT:rural' (to indicate that the speed limit is the value currently legislated covering rural areas in Italy)
• 'DE:urban' (to indicate that the speed limit is the value currently legislated covering urban areas in German)

Others advocate the use of maxspeed:type=* for the above information and use this tag to hold information about how the data was collected. This second use matches more closely how other 'source' tags (such as source=*, source:name=*) are used. It also allows more detail to be captured, including the legal maximum speed as a numeric in maxspeed=*, the legal form for that speed limit (in maxspeed:type=* and and information about when and how the data was captured in this tag. Common values of this type include:

• 'survey' (the information was collected during a physical survey of the area)
• 'massgis' (the information was imported from a Massachusetts official database)
• 'Maximum␣Speed␣Limits"␣GIS␣data,␣updated␣August␣27,␣2011:␣http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/statistics/gis/roaddata.shtm' (the information was imported from US Federal data from the UL given on the date given)