[OSM-talk] Units convention (Was: Mapping canals)
Richard Fairhurst
richard at systemeD.net
Thu Jan 24 16:23:06 GMT 2008
Martin Trautmann wrote:
> Speaking about canals - do they use nautical speeds? Is the proper
> unit km/h, mph or knots, are these land or sea miles? Distances here
> are given in km, using km plates besides the canal.
In the UK they use mph and miles.* Sometimes on river navigations
there's maxspeed_upstream and maxspeed_downstream, too. :)
cheers
Richard
* anoraks may pick me up on this but that's _way_ too involved to get
into here
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