On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Pieren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently, le wiki ([1]) suggests that maxspeed has to specify the
> unit "knots" when it's not km/h. But "knot" is the unit used worldwide
> on waterways. Why should we add something obvious on all waterway
> elements?
Except it totally
On 29/10/2014 19:48, Richard Z. wrote:
ouch. Luckily we don't map anything in UK vs US gallons or UK vs US
barrels or tons.. or do we?
US tons, certainly (and it has caught mappers out in the past when
they've been looking for rogue values to correct).
The UK uses (generally) metric measures
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 02:47:48PM +, Malcolm Herring wrote:
> On 29/10/2014 14:12, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> >I don't know about other countries, but here in Finland the water maxspeed
> >signage is in km/h although knot is used for almost everything else.
>
> In UK waterways, both MPH and knots
On 10/29/14 10:47 AM, Malcolm Herring wrote:
On 29/10/2014 14:12, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
I don't know about other countries, but here in Finland the water
maxspeed
signage is in km/h although knot is used for almost everything else.
In UK waterways, both MPH and knots are used. Usually MPH on c
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Malcolm Herring
wrote:
> On 29/10/2014 14:12, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
>>
>> I don't know about other countries, but here in Finland the water maxspeed
>> signage is in km/h although knot is used for almost everything else.
> In UK waterways, both MPH and knots are use
On 29/10/2014 14:12, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
I don't know about other countries, but here in Finland the water maxspeed
signage is in km/h although knot is used for almost everything else.
In UK waterways, both MPH and knots are used. Usually MPH on canals and
knots on rivers, though even this ca
2014-10-29 14:07 GMT+00:00 Pieren :
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
>> km/h is derived, at least with an integer multiple of seconds,
>> from SI units. mph and knots are not. I would prefer to keep
>> one default unit per tag, consistently, everything else leads
>> to confusi
On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Pieren wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> > km/h is derived, at least with an integer multiple of seconds,
> > from SI units. mph and knots are not. I would prefer to keep
> > one default unit per tag, consistently, everything else leads
> > to con
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> km/h is derived, at least with an integer multiple of seconds,
> from SI units. mph and knots are not. I would prefer to keep
> one default unit per tag, consistently, everything else leads
> to confusion.
What is leading to confusion is to su
km/h is derived, at least with an integer multiple of seconds,
from SI units. mph and knots are not. I would prefer to keep
one default unit per tag, consistently, everything else leads
to confusion.
Pieren wrote on 2014-10-29 14:14:
Hi,
Currently, le wiki ([1]) suggests that maxspeed has to sp
Hi,
Currently, le wiki ([1]) suggests that maxspeed has to specify the
unit "knots" when it's not km/h. But "knot" is the unit used worldwide
on waterways. Why should we add something obvious on all waterway
elements ? Could we suggest that the default unit for maxspeed on
waterways is "knot" and
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