[mkgmap-dev] mp/hh / km/h m or other units in maxspeed or distance keys

Tue Aug 28 09:36:59 BST 2012

Well it's quite a long time, there has been no discussion about this, 
however it's more and more common to put the unit into the main key. 
Could mkgmap do a clean up on this?

It would be great if mkgmap could do the following:
Remove any non numeric keys (and not "." or "," )  and place them into a 
new key called mkgmap:unit=....
Do this for maxspeed, distance, height, width (propose other keys I may 
have missed).

As I'm sure this would take quite some time, it should be an option, and 
there should be a style-file called units_removed where you can specify 
the keys for which mkgmap should do this.

Of course an implementation of automatically translating mp/h to km/h 
and other things would be great to have too, but the above is IMHO first 
of main importance. The problem is simply that commands like maxspeed>50 
or distance<10 don't work otherwise.

-- 
keep on biking and discovering new trails

Felix
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