Tom Evans wrote: >Sent: 24 January 2008 4:44 PM >To: talk@openstreetmap.org >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping canals > >Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote: >> >(Actually, on checking with a calculator, 7*12*2.54=213.36. So I'm >> >doing a bit of unconscious rounding already.) >> >> Indeed, the exact conversion is to multiply/divide by 0.3058 > >Er, you mean 0.3048, right? >(one inch is _defined as_ 25.4mm, and has been for many decades) >
Of course! Clearly a moment of dickey finger followed by a lack of QC/QA! Thanks for spotting. Cheers Andy > >I vote for what Stephen Gower (etc) said, keep the user-edited tags >"dirty". Friendly active mappers are the limiting resource. > >The thousand separator sounds daft to me, but if we're calling the user- >edit field "dirty" and putting it in there, it's not actually a problem, >even if it is daft. > >Tom > > > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >talk@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk