On 22/01/2008, 80n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think *renderers* really need to know much about speed limits. If a > road is tagged with 73000furlongsperfortnight then a renderer might show > that on a map, but it's probably not going to try to convert it to any other > units - why would it need to?
Because a render should be trying to portray the value in a manner useful to the map user, not in the manner favoured by the mapper. If speed limit data becomes a string whose value can't be compared to all others then we will have lost functionality. Dermot _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
