On Wed, 29 Oct 2014, Pieren wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Tom Pfeifer <[email protected]> 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 suggest that km/h is the default > unit for waterway speed when knot is in use everywhere. Please think > as a contributor, not as QA programmer or data consumer (it's easy to > check if the speed limit belongs to a waterway or not). > And "The knot is a non-SI unit that is "accepted for use with the SI" > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot_%28unit%29)
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. -- i. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
