On 24/01/2008 10:34, Gervase Markham wrote: > Sven Grüner wrote: >> I don't know of any country using the metric system that is familiar >> with the term "kph". The unit symbol is "km/h" and so everbody uses *kmh*. > > Google understands kph: > http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=30mph+in+kph > > So this is just another example of why allowing people to use any unit > "as long as they label it" is a bad idea :-)
'use any unit "as long as they label it" ' seems to be in line with (some people's) philosophy of tagging - use any tag you like, and it'll eventually converge to some kind of concensus. Indeed, that being the case, people *will* and probably *have already* put units into these kind of tags, so chances are units are defacto part of OSM tags. If CSS can do it, I don't see why OSM can't get to grips with units. It's not hard to process a unit string after a number. And there's no reason why such processors can't recognise variations either: km/h, kmh-1, kph; mph m.p.h. etc. because if there is no syntax check you can be sure every variation you can think of and many you can't will arise. David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
