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 think it's easier for five
programmers to write
if ($speed=~/(\d+)mph/) { $speed=$1*1.6093; }
or for thousands of mappers to learn yet another new tagging rule.
Given the large amount of parsing that will be required to get any
OSM data into routeable format, the programming effort in the above
is trivial.
cheers
Richard
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