I've come across some large water tanks for fire fighting purposes, and
was wondering what exactly to tag them as.
I've found a few in the Kinglake area, there's a few more to put on the
map too.
Pictures of them:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/843/20111022040.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/phot
I'd be inclined to go for used-defined tags. The existing tags do not
accurately describe the feature, and are at best misleading. A suggestion:
emergency=water
water=tank
As far as capacity is concerned, I'd opt for the standard unit for
measuring large water volumes - megalitres (ML).
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On 30 October 2011 16:24, John Henderson wrote:
> As far as capacity is concerned, I'd opt for the standard unit for measuring
> large water volumes - megalitres (ML).
Might be commonly used in Australia but the SI unit is actually cubic metres.
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True, but that doesn't mean we need to use it. When they actually
bother to give the SI unit a name, I'll think about using it. In the
meantime, the named metric unit of volume is the litre (L), and you
can use it with all the prefixes, including KL (or cubic metre), ML
etc. The prefixes don't r
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