<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp7fa03b10yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">0.3048 m according to my ConvertPad app on my phone - and according to Wikipedia (so that must be true!)</div><div><br></div><div class="ydp7fa03b10signature"><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Regards,</div><div dir="ltr">Peter</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>(PeterPann99)<br></div></div></div><div><br></div>
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On Sunday, 28 January 2024 at 19:36:06 GMT, Philip Barnes <phil@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp8c338bc4yiv3043292646"><div><div>The legal definition of a foot is of course 0.348 m.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">"Since an international agreement in 1959, the foot is defined as equal to exactly 0.3048 metres'.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Phil (trigpoint)</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="ydp8c338bc4yiv3043292646gmail_quote"><div id="ydp8c338bc4yiv3043292646yqtfd19063" class="ydp8c338bc4yiv3043292646yqt7767750840"><div>On 28 January 2024 18:57:45 GMT, Minh Nguyen <minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> wrote:</div><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp8c338bc4yiv3043292646gmail_quote">
<pre class="ydp8c338bc4yiv3043292646k9mail"></pre><div>Vào lúc 04:08 2024-01-28, Greg Troxel đã viết:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #729fcf;padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp8c338bc4yiv3043292646gmail_quote"><div>Minh Nguyen <minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us> writes:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #ad7fa8;padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp8c338bc4yiv3043292646gmail_quote"><div>Vào lúc 19:50 2024-01-27, Brian M. Sperlongano đã viết:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid #8ae234;padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp8c338bc4yiv3043292646gmail_quote"><div>Uh so I did the math, and unless I've got this wrong, the difference<br clear="none">between survey feet and international feet for tagging, let's say,<br clear="none">Mount Everest, is less than seven one-hundredths of an inch. So I'm<br clear="none">really not even sure why we're discussing it beyond the fact that<br clear="none">we're all nerds about this sort of thing.<br clear="none"></div></blockquote><div><br clear="none">You got me. :-) The actual proposal doesn't mention the foot's two<br clear="none">definitions at all, and so far I'm planning to keep it that way.<br clear="none"></div></blockquote><div><br clear="none">I think it's important to be definitionally correct, even if it doesn't<br clear="none">really matter. It's a slippery slope, and pretty soon \pi is 3.<br clear="none"></div></blockquote><div><br clear="none">Poor Indiana. ;-) The definition of the foot would apply to the ' and ft abbreviations in every context, not just the ele=* key, so I'd suggest considering it separately, probably without the formality of a vote. The main unit symbol listing has come together more informally over the years. [1]<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sooner or later, OpenHistoricalMap will have a lot of fun with this issue...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">[1] <a shape="rect" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features/Units" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features/Units</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div class="ydp8c338bc4yqt7767750840" id="ydp8c338bc4yqtfd68834">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Tagging mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Tagging@openstreetmap.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tagging@openstreetmap.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" fg_scanned="1">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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