This is most useful with trackpoints from formats that don't support
speed information or for trackoints synthesized by the
<link linkend="filter_interpolate">interpolate</link>
-filter. The speed at each trackpoint is the average speed from the
+filter.</para>
+<para>
+The speed at each trackpoint is the average speed from the
previous trackpoint (distance divided by time). The first trackpoint
in each track is assigned a speed of "unknown."
</para>
+<para>
+The unit of speed is meters per second.
+</para>
-
+<para>
+ This option, when set, reduces the amount of whitespace in the
+ generated GeoJSON. This reduces the size, especially when uncompressed,
+ but reduces the readibility to humans.
+</para>