CHANGE THE SUBJECT LINE, GUYS! On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 04:08:21PM +0100, Michael Collinson wrote: > > maxheight= 3 ft - original-easy-to enter "folksomomic" key (defaults > either to metric or local usage, there are arguments for both) > > maxheight:metric = 0.912 - added either by power users or by post-processing
"I heartily endorse this event or product." Seriously, this feels like the OSM way, and therefore is right. 1) Existing tags are already "dirty" with respect to units - they can, and *do* contain mixed units. 2) This is analogous to the language keyspace - the unspecified key contains the local "what's on the ground" data, but specific languages are in the approriate key. So as Michael says, maxheight could be anything, but maxheight:metric would be in metres. <troll> And maxspeed:metric would be in metres per second. </troll> s _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
