[OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - waterways/ditch
Richard Fairhurst
richard at systemeD.net
Tue Sep 2 11:26:33 BST 2008
spaetz wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 10:08:11AM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
>> - and that it's possible to represent an exact mph in kph anyway if
>> you can really be bothered: 1mile == 1.609344km exactly
>
> Do you always carry your calculator with you when mapping or do you
> do it by hand :-)
Slightly obscure point but I'd also add that the speed limit on UK
dual carriageways is 70mph by statute, not 112.65408kph. Now I don't
expect the UK Government is going to sneak in a stealth speed
reduction by redefining a mile as 1.5km, but, well, I wouldn't put it
past them.
I was pleased to see someone yesterday take up the cudgels for one of
my all-too-numerous hobby-horses:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2008-September/011602.html
which is that a 'libosm' for client apps would be utterly wonderful,
abstracting away all the workaday crap like downloads and invisibly
converting units; it'd encourage client app development, remove the
need for mappers to learn ever more and more, and give a bit of a
respite to us hard-pressed editor authors (thereby letting us
concentrate on important things like UI :) ). But as I'm not proposing
to write it I shall hereby shut the f--- up.
cheers
Richard
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