2015-03-13 11:09 GMT+01:00 Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com>: > I'm for verbal description rather than a number - easier to understand. > If I come across a road marked 'smoothness=medium' and later come across a > road with worse smoothness I can see which way to go with the verbal value, > if the value was a simple number I'd nave no idea..and may skip the data > entry due to time limits, laziness and added complexity. >
Problem with verbal descriptions is, that you don't know how much worse it is, e.g. grade1 vs. grade3 tells you there must also be a grade2, while "bad" vs. "medium" doesn't give you any such information. Cheers, Martin
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