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Martin Trautmann wrote:
| There is really no point using a thousands separator in figures which are
| supposed to be machine-readable.
And there is every point not doing so.
| The storage format should be machine-readable. That's why ft and mph
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CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE, GUYS!
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:08:21PM +0100, Michael Collinson wrote:
maxheight= 3 ft - original-easy-to enter folksomomic key (defaults
either to metric or local usage, there are arguments for both)
maxheight:metric = 0.912 - added either by power users or
The complete list of allowed units for speed is:
Where did you find this? Is it
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features#Restrictions
* kph (assumed if there is none specified)
* mph
please do NOT call it kph. The derived SI units are km/h
That's it. The fact is that the UK and
Martin Trautmann wrote:
Speaking about canals - do they use nautical speeds? Is the proper
unit km/h, mph or knots, are these land or sea miles? Distances here
are given in km, using km plates besides the canal.
In the UK they use mph and miles.* Sometimes on river navigations
there's
On 24/01/2008, Martin Trautmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
m would be the default - and I assume it's a decimal POINT here (since many
countries do use decimal commas). Since some distances might be above 1 000
metres, I do recommend a space as thousands separator:
A few days ago I was
On Jan 24, 2008 4:18 PM, Martin Trautmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
US: 1,000.00 m = 1 km
DE: 1.000,00 m = 1 km
1 000.00 m = 1 km ... my recommendation
There is really no point using a thousands separator in figures which are
supposed to be machine-readable.
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Abi
There is really no point using a thousands separator in figures which are
supposed to be machine-readable.
The storage format should be machine-readable. That's why ft and mph would be
converted to metric numbers.
User's output should be best for reading - and input could be flexible e.g.
I hope I'm not missing the point here but surely the maps should use a unit
convention for each type of measure. Say metric for distance (be it from
place to place or contour heights or sea depth) and then the user can choose
to render it as they prefer?
Without intimate knowledge of this
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