[OSM-talk] Mapping canals

[Dermot McNally]

On 24/01/2008, Abigail Brady <morwen at evilmagic.org> wrote:

> We need for the UK to keep imperial measurements in the DB.

Our challenge is to manage to do this while also keeping the data
interpretable. If an in-truck navigation system knows that this
particular truck needs a clearance of 5m then maxheight=15'0" needs to
be interpreted somewhere.

My favourite suggestion so far is that a second key be introduced -
either for the "original" measurement (my favourite, since it retains
the traditional meaning of the existing key) or for the normalised
equivalent.

Dermot