<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Warin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
ele= only takes meters as a unit .. the reason states is that "Renderers have no way of doing conversions on the fly to local units while creating image tiles" ... and this is an 'approved' tag.</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That's mapping for the rendering's back-end SQL database.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>If I'm staring at a sign that says "14,505 feet", that's certainly how I want to tag it.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The rendering can catch up. Parsers are easy, ubiquitous and cheap.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">To the extent the wiki describes actual tagging practice, rather than hopes, this is already a non issue. People do tag feet, meters, psi and a variety of other reasonable human oriented units. Any rendering not parsing that data is missing valid data.<br></div></div>