Re: [Viking-devel] Metric Versus Imperial Units

[Greg H. <gr...@ha...>]

Rob and Guilhem---

Let me do a little research on LC_MEASUREMENT.  That might be a great
way to pick up initial values for the preferences (when they haven't
already been set). I also think the separate units for x- and y-axis
distance units from z-axis distance units seems to make sense.  I'm
assuming (having not looked at it) that there's a method for determining
if a given preference hasn't been assigned a value.  I'll check on that.

To Rob's point about scaling, that's a issue.  In metric units, at
somewhere around a thousand meters, the units should switch to km.  At
somewhere around 5280 feet, units should go from feet to miles.

This feels like two separate feature enhancements, if I have a little
time later today, I'm going to post them as feature requests and assign
them to myself.  Having not done this on this system, I'll assume I can
figure that out.

---gregh

On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 21:18 +0100, Robert Norris wrote:
> 
> Personally I want control over each of the different axis: I want distances in miles, but heights in metres. 
> Think of the controls most GPS devices give the user.
>  
> The defaults could be set from LC_MEASUREMENT on first program run.
>  
> Secondly if one does use metric values, large distance values aren't handled to well. For example 1234.5 m isn't clear to me. I think the display should change to kilometers -> 1.2 km.  
> NB heights should always stay in metres, not km.
>  
> Any work in this area is greatly appreciated.