<div dir="ltr">I should have been more clear.<div>I mean: go ahead, good move, and it's not a big task to adapt the remaining ele:ft=* to ele=* ft once the documentation is adapted. <div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Peter Elderson</div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Op vr 3 dec. 2021 om 09:00 schreef Minh Nguyen <<a href="mailto:minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us">minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Vào lúc 22:08 2021-12-02, Peter Elderson đã viết:<br>
> Taginfo shows less then 1000 ele:ft and over 7,6 million ele.<br>
> <br>
> Shouldn't be a major problem.<br>
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I think you're referring to the global taginfo, but no one is suggesting <br>
that every ele=* worldwide should be expressed in feet. (That ship <br>
sailed in 1875.) There are 5.1 million ele=* tags in the U.S., of which <br>
at least 4.9 million came from bulk imports of buildings, POIs, and <br>
peaks. [1] In my opinion, it's more important to focus on the impact <br>
going forward on manual mapping of features for which elevation is <br>
highly relevant, rather than existing bulk imports of features for which <br>
elevation is of lesser importance.<br>
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To be clear, I'm not proposing to retag anything. The proposal is only <br>
about removing a historical anomaly in the documentation and codifying <br>
existing practice, accepting that mappers will keep introducing values <br>
that conform to OSM's well-established standards regarding units.<br>
<br>
I'd welcome discussion about the impact to editors and data consumers, <br>
with the recognition that some of it has long been present regardless of <br>
the proposal. And if it truly is too late to change the documentation, <br>
then let's discuss how to mitigate dataloss from values without an <br>
explicit feet indication and from inaccurate conversions to a larger unit.<br>
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[1] <br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ele_with_units#Features_affected" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/ele_with_units#Features_affected</a><br>
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