UNITS Statement

The UNITS statement sets the units (Imperial or metric) that are used in the created GBFS file.

The UNITS attribute is written into the created GBFS file. Specifying the units to use is important if your data includes any speed limit information, as the units will determine whether values are interpreted as miles per hour or kilometers per hour. If you do not specify the units, a value of UnitSystem.Unknown is assigned to the dataset.

In addition to determining how speed data is interpreted, if you have also set the COUNTRY attribute, then the units you specify for this attribute are returned by the GetUnitSystem method when the value of the COUNTRY attribute is supplied as an argument.

The UNITS attribute is one of the attributes that can optionally be specified at the start of the import file. All of these attributes are optional, but if you include any, they must be specified in the following order (OUTPUT first, REGIONS last):

• OUTPUT	Sets the filename of the output GBFS file
  DATASET	Sets an arbitrary name for this dataset
  COPYRIGHT	Sets a copyright for this dataset
  COUNTRY	Sets the name of the country that this dataset represents
  UNITS	Sets the unit system that this dataset uses - Metric or Imperial
  REGIONS	Sets the region information for this dataset

Syntax

UNITS value;

Nomenclature

Example

UNITS Metric;