The use of 'multipliers' is common ..
As well as kilometers per hour (100 kmh would be come 100,000 mh without
the multiplier) there is mass kg and tonnes .. (10kg would be come
10,000 g with the multiplier) , elevation in meters and kilometers etc.
Preference should be for what is commonly used for that particular
amount and feature.
I would leave this alone - let the mapper use that thing that should be
applied - common sense.
On 29/07/19 21:00, dktue wrote:
I'd vote for kW aswell (and a value of "22" then), since we're not
always using SI and not always base-unit-values (see kilometers per hour).
Am 29.07.2019 um 12:53 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
Am Mo., 29. Juli 2019 um 12:39 Uhr schrieb dktue
<em...@daniel-korn.de <mailto:em...@daniel-korn.de>>:
Hello,
the OSM-Wiki-page on charging stations [1] defines the tag
socket:<type>:output=watt
wheres the examples contain values like "22 kW".
What would the preferred format be? "22000" or "22 kW"? I would
like to
clearify this on the wiki-page.
Personally I would prefer "22000" as it fits with other
OSM-values (no
units).
generally people are encouraged to add units for disambiguation
reasons and to use locally used units and preferably SI units.
For power, no default units are currently specified on this page:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features/Units
And it doesn't even mention horsepower for power, a unit that for
many people may be more evocative than Watt (everybody can imagine 30
horses, but how much are 22 kW?) ;-)
Personally, if we were to set up a default for power units, I would
prefer kW, because if we'd use Watt we will get very high numbers for
MW (e.g. needed for power generators). Presuming, we would have the
same standard unit for all things power, and not different defaults
for socket and say power stations.
Cheers,
Martin
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