On 3/04/2015 8:33 PM, Bryce Nesbitt wrote:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com
<mailto:61sundow...@gmail.com>> wrote:
ele= only takes meters as a unit .. the reason states is that
"Renderers have no way of doing conversions on the fly to local
units while creating image tiles" ... and this is an 'approved' tag.
That's mapping for the rendering's back-end SQL database.
Not saying it is good... but that is what is written in the wiki.
If I'm staring at a sign that says "14,505 feet", that's certainly how
I want to tag it.
Agreed!!!!
Conversions should be done remotely rather than by a tired mapper at
14,505 feet! And are best done by a tried and tested code.
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