[OSM-talk] Units convention (Was: Mapping canals)

[Martin Trautmann]

> A few days ago I was blissfully ignorant of the fact that 
> there were any unit suffixes at all in these fields, having 
> assumed that all mappers were storing metric units as implied 
> by Mapfeatures. We now have a messy set of proposals from 
> which we need to find the best outcome.
> 
> So _please_ don't let's end up also introducing thousands 
> separators where we don't need them.

The database should not use any thousands separators at all. But for international purposes the output may be formatted to better numbers for reading -  such as "population=12 345 678". 

I wanted to point out especially the decimal units where you MUST NOT use decimal commas, even if they are the default within your country.
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