[OSM-talk] Mapping canals

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Tom Evans wrote:
>Sent: 24 January 2008 4:44 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Mapping canals
>
>Andy Robinson (blackadder) wrote:
>> >(Actually, on checking with a calculator, 7*12*2.54=213.36. So I'm
>> >doing a bit of unconscious rounding already.)
>>
>> Indeed, the exact conversion is to multiply/divide by 0.3058
>
>Er, you mean 0.3048, right?
>(one inch is _defined as_ 25.4mm, and has been for many decades)
>

Of course! Clearly a moment of dickey finger followed by a lack of QC/QA!

Thanks for spotting.

Cheers

Andy

>
>I vote for what Stephen Gower (etc) said, keep the user-edited tags
>"dirty".  Friendly active mappers are the limiting resource.
>
>The thousand separator sounds daft to me, but if we're calling the user-
>edit field "dirty" and putting it in there, it's not actually a problem,
>even if it is daft.
>
>Tom
>
>
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