[OSM-talk] Units convention

Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-list at deelkar.net
Fri Feb 1 17:36:29 GMT 2008


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Stephen Gower schrieb:
>   <troll>
>   And maxspeed:metric would be in metres per second.
>   </troll>

No, that would be maxspeed:SI, metric is still not the same as SI

There is some ambiguity in metric, as you have to discern from context,
wether a weight is in kg or tons (would be tons for our purposes)

so basically, if you want to have it unambiguos without any unit
mentioned, you'd need to derive a foo:SI tag for every measure.

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Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie
Bremen - 53.0952°N 8.8652°E

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