Speed limit sign not showing

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Hi,

So im new to realdash. Ive just installed this and downloaded the colour of dash theme. The preview shows the ability to view a speed limit sign. Ive searched through the settings but i cant find anything to activate it or have it displayed. Am i missing something? How do i view the speed limit?

Thanks

Edit: correction, its showing the sign but only for some streets and not all streets.

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RealDash gets speed limit information from Open Street Maps:

It may be that all roads in your area just do not have speed limit information. You can browse that from OSM. You can even update the speed limit info into Open Street Maps, and then they will appear in RealDash.

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To elaborate, RealDash queries for the maxspeed key from OpenStreetMaps. If this key is left empty, the maxspeed value is left at 0, for example:

  • when there are two different speed limits for opposing directions (e.g. 100 km/h in one direction and 70 in the other, common near intersections)
  • when all speed limit infos on OSM are conditional (e.g. 100 km/h from 6AM to 7PM and 130 km/h from 7PM to 6AM, for noise reduction at night)
  • when the limit is part of an area speed limit (e.g. 30 km/h zones) and handled as a conditional speed limit
  • when the speed limit is temporary (e.g. short-duration workzones)
  • when there is no speed limit data at all for this road yet.

Everyone can add maxspeed values if they are not present, but please do not overwrite existing speed limit data unless it is incorrect.

In theory, RealDash could query for any key/tag applied to a location on OSM, but this would quickly be limited by available bandwidth. Bandwidth isn’t free, unfortunately.

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