[OSM-talk] Mapping canals

[Gervase Markham]

Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:
> Per country defaults sounds like a nightmare to me any software designed
> to do anything with any of the data would have to know the list of
> defaults and the borders of all the countries in order to be useful.
> Please put ft or m in every tag.

That's an even worse idea :-) If the tag is defined in m, we'll just 
have to use m, and if English canal maps need to be in feet, then the 
renderer will have to convert.

Gerv