[OpenLayers-Dev] Adding nautical miles and yards to units

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:32:06PM +0100, Ian Mayo wrote:
> Hi,
> the maritime GIS community work in yards and nautical miles, so the
> following lines could be added to util.js
> 
> OpenLayers.INCHES_PER_UNIT["yd"]= 36;		
> // a yard is 36 inches
> OpenLayers.INCHES_PER_UNIT["nmi"]= 1852 * OpenLayers.INCHES_PER_UNIT["m"];	
> // a nautical mile is 1852 yards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile)

here you use '1852 * m', but it seems like this should be 1852 * yd.
Also, I think 'nm' is the better abbreviation.  

> How do the community feel about adding maritime units to OpenLayers?

Indifferent, but it seems unlikely to hurt anything :)

> I appreciate developers can insert the above lines directly into the
> custom applications, but suspect a better home is in the trunk.

I'm generally okay with this. Can you put together a patch and file a
ticket?

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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