[Tagging] Elevation in Feet as part of Peak Names

[Warin]

On 08-Sep-17 09:10 AM, Dave Swarthout wrote:
> Adding numeric values to the name of a peak is not okay. As for using 
> feet in the "ele" tag instead of meters, JOSM discourages this 
> practice and I think we should too. It's long past the time when 
> Americans and other countries still using archaic and cumbersome 
> measurement systems based on the length of the king's foot or thumb 
> should embrace the metric system. The down side is that very peak I 
> add involves an extra step.

Aviation still uses feet?
Asking a mapper who may not be familiar with conversion into meters 
leads to errors. I'd rather have the render do the conversion as is done 
for other dimensions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com 
> <mailto:winfixit at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     ele can of course be in feett or lightyears for that matter, but
>     it's a lot easier to work with if they are all in the same unit.
>
>     2017-09-08 0:22 GMT+02:00 Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com
>     <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>>:
>
>         On 08-Sep-17 07:39 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
>
>             On 09/07/2017 04:31 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
>
>                 User Raymo853 and I are having a friendly discussion
>                 on changeset
>                 50470413[1]. He has been adding the elevation of
>                 mountain peaks (in
>                 feet) to the name tag. For example, he changed "Crown
>                 Point" to "Crown
>                 Point 11,463 ft."[2] While the wiki doesn't
>                 specifically address the
>                 issue of elevation as part of a peak name, it does say
>                 "Name is the name
>                 only"[3].
>
>                 Could we get feedback from the wider community on this?
>
>             That's what this is for:
>             https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ele
>             <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ele>
>
>             The only catch is that it has to be in meters, so you
>             would tag
>             ele=3493.9 in your example.
>
>
>         +1 to name tag is name only.
>
>
>         --------------------------
>
>         ele tag should be used for this information.
>
>         And I would think that the ele value can be in feet just like
>         other dimensional units of width, height etc.
>
>         Should this be put as a new proposal?
>
>
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