On 08-Sep-17 09:10 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
Adding numeric values to the name of a peak is not okay. As for using
feet in the "ele" tag instead of meters, JOSM discourages this
practice and I think we should too. It's long past the time when
Americans and other countries still using archaic and cumbersome
measurement systems based on the length of the king's foot or thumb
should embrace the metric system. The down side is that very peak I
add involves an extra step.
Aviation still uses feet?
Asking a mapper who may not be familiar with conversion into meters
leads to errors. I'd rather have the render do the conversion as is done
for other dimensions.
Cheers,
Dave
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Jo <winfi...@gmail.com
<mailto:winfi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
ele can of course be in feett or lightyears for that matter, but
it's a lot easier to work with if they are all in the same unit.
2017-09-08 0:22 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com
<mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com>>:
On 08-Sep-17 07:39 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On 09/07/2017 04:31 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
User Raymo853 and I are having a friendly discussion
on changeset
50470413[1]. He has been adding the elevation of
mountain peaks (in
feet) to the name tag. For example, he changed "Crown
Point" to "Crown
Point 11,463 ft."[2] While the wiki doesn't
specifically address the
issue of elevation as part of a peak name, it does say
"Name is the name
only"[3].
Could we get feedback from the wider community on this?
That's what this is for:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ele
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ele>
The only catch is that it has to be in meters, so you
would tag
ele=3493.9 in your example.
+1 to name tag is name only.
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ele tag should be used for this information.
And I would think that the ele value can be in feet just like
other dimensional units of width, height etc.
Should this be put as a new proposal?
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