[OSM-talk] Mapping canals

[Dermot McNally]

On 22/01/2008, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think *renderers* really need to know much about speed limits.  If a
> road is tagged with 73000furlongsperfortnight then a renderer might show
> that on a map, but it's probably not going to try to convert it to any other
> units - why would it need to?

Because a render should be trying to portray the value in a manner
useful to the map user, not in the manner favoured by the mapper. If
speed limit data becomes a string whose value can't be compared to all
others then we will have lost functionality.

Dermot