2008/10/8 Ed Loach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'd argue that it doesn't make sense, in that if you allow both > maxspeed:mph and maxspeed as valid tags, a way may end up tagged > with both showing contradictory speed information.
This would require either 2 mappers not heeding each other's work or one very disorganised mapper. > It makes more > sense to have maxspeed=<number><optional units; assume km/h if none > specified> to avoid the chance of that happening. Doing so prevents simple numerical analysis of the field contents. Nothing can be analysed without pre-processing, and you are very prone to dodgy units (how many ways can you right Miles Per Hour?) Dermot -- -------------------------------------- Iren sind menschlich _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
