On Tuesday 2008-09-02, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > cobaco wrote: > > hm, does that statue specify which mile they're talking about? If it > > doesn't, can one interpret it as one of the longer miles (see the > > wikipedia page, theres about a dozen different definitions of mile, > > ranging from 1.? km to 11.? km) > > And don't forget that the metre was redefined in 1983. If specifying a > speed in km/h, you should ascertain the age of the sign to see whether > it's 50,000 * one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to > the North Pole via Paris, or the distance travelled by light in an > absolute vacuum in 50,000 299,792,458ths of a second.
LOL, true, but the actual differences are on a scale measurable by ordinarily used instruments is nil (doubly so in OSM). So from a practical perspective it doesn't matter. The differences in interpretation for a mile are rather more dramatic though (hm, me wonders if any croation/russion/swedisch/norwegian tourists have ever tried to get out of speeding tickets that way :) -- Cheers, Cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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