spaetz wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:08:11AM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote: >> - and that it's possible to represent an exact mph in kph anyway if >> you can really be bothered: 1mile == 1.609344km exactly > > Do you always carry your calculator with you when mapping or do you > do it by hand :-)
Slightly obscure point but I'd also add that the speed limit on UK dual carriageways is 70mph by statute, not 112.65408kph. Now I don't expect the UK Government is going to sneak in a stealth speed reduction by redefining a mile as 1.5km, but, well, I wouldn't put it past them. I was pleased to see someone yesterday take up the cudgels for one of my all-too-numerous hobby-horses: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2008-September/011602.html which is that a 'libosm' for client apps would be utterly wonderful, abstracting away all the workaday crap like downloads and invisibly converting units; it'd encourage client app development, remove the need for mappers to learn ever more and more, and give a bit of a respite to us hard-pressed editor authors (thereby letting us concentrate on important things like UI :) ). But as I'm not proposing to write it I shall hereby shut the f--- up. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
