I have edited the units page to include the long ton.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features/Units
And edited the weight page to exclude the unit from the definition.
And also mention the tonne (BE!).
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxweight
It makes a few barleycorns of difference.
(Barleycorns were used as a unit of weight ... and length just to confuse).
I too recall the hundredweight from my youth, but I don't recall the
relationships.
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For those interested in old units, from wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obsolete_units_of_measurement#Mass_or_weight
On 27/01/19 12:45, Paul Allen wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 00:49, Sergio Manzi <s...@smz.it <mailto:s...@smz.it>>
wrote:
... but now I have a doubt... I don't find any referenece... have
I been pranked? :-/
I thought perhaps you had, because I couldn't turn up anything on a google
search.
Which is why I said I hadn't heard of it. But I was puzzled when you
responded that
the imperial hundredweight was "112 lb 8 stones" so I checked. And found
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredweight. So you were right about the
cental.
Except in British English we used hundredweight in my youth because we had never
heard of "centum weight" or "quintal." And, to be honest, even hundredweight
wasn't much used outside of people involved in bulk transportation of heavy
goods, so it was pretty much ounces, pounds, stones and tons for ordinary
people.
There are many more units of weight. I dimly remember a very old Science
Fiction
story in which aliens failed to invade the Earth because they were confused by
all
the different units of weight involved. I can't remember the name of the story
or the
author, but I can remember that one of the bizarre units was the catty.
This way madness lies. Some of these bizarre units of weight are still in use
in
various parts of the world. The link above has an image of a weight restriction
sign on Alderney (not part of the UK but a Crown Dependency) of 30cwt. Which
is imperial cwt (or centum weight) not US cental. I'm seriously starting to
think
the wiki page adopted the most sensible strategy of saying that weights should
be in metric units.
Except for one problem. The various tons and hundredweights are not units of
weight but of mass, so weight restrictions are given in mass units not weight
units. We should be specifying weight restrictions in Newtons, dynes
poundals and slugs.
OK. Let's deprecate weight restrictions. Change the wiki to say weight
restrictions
are not permitted. :)
--
Paul
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