Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reading this thread, the thing that occurs to me is that every other tag in the system is based on British English, just because that's what we started with, and it would be horrible to have a mixture. Argubly, in British English (and even US English)

Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Dave Stubbs
On 21/09/2007, Jonathan Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave Stubbs wrote > > Leaving the units off is quite a bit like not bothering with the first > > 2 digits of the year for whatever reason. > It's more like not stating that the year is in the Gregorian calendar > every time you write one.

Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Jonathan Bennett
Dave Stubbs wrote > Leaving the units off is quite a bit like not bothering with the first > 2 digits of the year for whatever reason. It's more like not stating that the year is in the Gregorian calendar every time you write one. Yes, if someone comes along and uses a Julian year things are goi

Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Collinson
At 11:13 AM 9/21/2007, Dave Stubbs wrote: I'm definitely against this idea! For the record, I have no great urge to go metric ourselves; I just want things to work, and perceive a point of failure in this. I realise that programmers can easily add a comversion routine - but why cause the proble

Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Dave Stubbs
On 21/09/2007, Mark Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looking to map uses, we're going to be wanting routing, to know how fast > a given route is; or a warning if over speed, from GPS (as nothing else > knows our location..). So we will have software using it. Is someone in > 'foreign parts'

Re: [Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mark Williams wrote: > For the record, I have no great urge to go metric ourselves; I just > want > things to work, and perceive a point of failure in this. I realise > that > programmers can easily add a comversion routine - but why cause the > problem? Well, it kind of depends whether you

[Talk-GB] [Fwd: Re: Speed limits]

2007-09-21 Thread Mark Williams
Original Message Subject:Re: [Talk-GB] Speed limits Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:04:07 +0100 From: Mark Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Richard Fairhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>