On 20/09/2007, Abigail Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/20/07, Nick Folwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What do people use for speed limits in the UK? The "maxspeed=" tag is > > supposed to be in km/hr. I've started using "maxspeed=30mph", is that > > consistent with what others are using? Or should we have "maxspeed=30; > > speedunits=mph"? > > > maxspeed=48 ?
48.28? but even that's not /right/. I came across a speed limit in Windsor Great Park a few weeks back for 38mph which is a little odd... I'm not going to encode that as maxspeed=61.1 as that would seem silly. Apparently they decided on a 60km/h limit in 1973, but by law have to provide mph signage, and so translated (rounding up). I say include the units and use the locally defined units. To be compatible maybe add a new tag for this: maxspeed_localunits=38mph (obviously thinking up a better name). Or do it the other way round, so maxspeed_kph=61 Dave PS. Yeah, I know, the accuracy here is barely relevant... most car speedos will have a higher error margin than that anyway.
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