Theme fund: NGI0 Discovery
Period: 2021-12 — 2022-08
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OpenStreetMap Speed Limits
Infer default speed limits for better quality OpenStreetMap-based routing
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the worlds largest open geodata set, created and maintained collaboratively by millions of users. Of course there are many other purposes beyond creating a map, for instance finding the best route from A to B. Such usage needs to take into account incomplete data, as coverage of speed limits varies greatly across OSM. Currently, only about 12% of roads in OSM have speed limits set. However, default legal speed limits can often be inferred from other data, such as whether the road is within an urban zone, whether the carriage way is segregated, how many lanes it has, whether it is paved etc.
The goal of this project is to extract the default speed limits for different road and vehicle types for all state legislations, map these to OSM and provide these in a machine-readable form so that it can be consumed by open source routing software such as GraphHopper, Valhalla or OSRM. Further, a reference implementation that interprets this data will be provided.
This project was funded through theNGI0 Discovery Fund, a fund established byNLnet with financial support from the European Commission'sNext Generation Internet programme, under the aegis ofDG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No825322.
