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<p>To be honest I have never really understood why OSM seems so allergic to the idea of leveraging (how I hate that word...) existing standards. I can only guess that anything that smells of formal ontologies is thought to limit or restrict the creative freedom of mappers to invent new values and introduces the concept that values can now be demonstrably "wrong" or "illegal". So we do whatever we like, until someone notices and objects.</p>
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<p>On 2019-02-20 01:45, Andrew Errington wrote:</p>
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<div dir="auto">Already handled by ISO8601:
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<div dir="auto">I think any discussion of dates and times should start by asking if we could apply ISO8601 to the problem at hand. For example the other thread about start date variants.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 12:48 Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a> wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 23:16, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="m_-7721283856072217843m_3609795190658731651gmail-m_4677918196867709093moz-cite-prefix">On 19/02/19 22:03, Paul Allen wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 03:48, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>I added a maxstay a few weeks ago and I found info about units at</div>
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<div>Units are not explicitly defined, but there are several examples. Units in those examples</div>
<div>are minutes, hours, and days. I expect that weeks, months and years would also be</div>
<div>acceptable for long-stay parking. Maybe even decades and centuries, should they be</div>
<div>needed. Seconds are too small to be practicable.</div>
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<div>True. But the examples show which units are permissible and how they should be</div>
<div>specified.</div>
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<div>There are some numerical values in the data base without units ... from those values I would guess hours, but they could be days.</div>
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<div>Or minutes, depending on actual value. One place near me says waiting is limited to 90 minutes.</div>
<div>But 90 days is close to 3 months. Could be either if units aren't given.</div>
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<div>As there is no documentation 'we' could make a decision. <br /> <br /> No information on abbreviations.</div>
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<div>From the examples, unit names are spelled out in full.</div>
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<div>So the choice is between:</div>
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<div> 1) Spelling units in full (as per the examples) and specifying which unit is the default.</div>
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<div> 2) Coming up with abbreviations and specifying which unit is the default.</div>
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<div>I'd go with 1). Firstly, somebody (like me) may have specified units that way already.</div>
<div>Secondly, different languages may have different names for those units of time. We can</div>
<div>agree to (mostly) use SI units for mass and length because those are applicable in much</div>
<div>of the world and have standard abbreviations. Common time units like minute, hour and</div>
<div>month probably have different abbreviations in different parts of the world. Less error</div>
<div>prone if an editor drop-down has minutes/hours/days than m/h/d if "d" is the abbreviation</div>
<div>for a period of 3600 seconds in some language. Thirdly, minutes and months (m and m).</div>
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Looks good to me. See what others think. <br /> <br /> On default units .. <br /> Possibly specify the smallest unit as that will cause the least amount of harm with already entered values? <br /> By that I mean a value of '60' if taken as days would be more harmful to the user (fines, tow away) than if taken as minutes. <br /> Not convinced on this, but it is a thought. <br /> </div>
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