On 23/01/2008, David Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had in mind (and it'll probably stay in mind!) a renderer which showed > you a ground level view of the street you were "moving" along with > upcoming turnings and so on, like a satnav display, which showed > signposts - no right turn, this way to Amarillo - and a 30 sign as you > entered a 30 area (not a 52.12345 sign).
I agree that we need to be able to show that 30 sign. It seems to me that we _also_ need to be able to show 50 (or 52, or maybe even 52.12345) to users who've chosen to navigate in km. In the case of the specific example, you'd need to offer that choice, since most of the world drives cars with no mph on the speedo scale. So whatever standard we adopt, we'll need to allow renderers to grok the numbers well enough to do units conversion, and that's whether or not we decide that it's valid for the DB to store string-with-unit. Dermot _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
