[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - waterways/ditch

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

spaetz wrote:
>Sent: 01 September 2008 7:50 PM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - waterways/ditch
>
>On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 07:25:12PM +0100, Tristan Scott wrote:
>> surely width=0.254 given width is defined as being in metres?
>
>says who? I use meter as I live in continental Europe.
>
>But if I lived in the UK I would surely tag speelimits as
>maxspeed:mph=50 (or maxspeed=50mph) and not as some weird converted number.
>Fun if your Garmin tells you: "the maximum speed here is
>49.8789598 mph". If renderers couldn't cope (not that they care about
>maxspeed) I would consider it a fault of the renderer or of the
>preprocessor they are using to parse the planet file.
>
>wasn't the motto, "tag the world as it is"? well if speedlimit is 50mph,
>then it is 50 mph

exactly

Cheers

Andy