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2001-08-04
Should we be surprised? This is what we
expected. I just wonder how many of these British and American users are
actually members of the BWMA or their American sister group who scour the
internet looking for such sites and demand that they use FFU as their
defaults?
What this does not explain is why ALL other
languages also default to FFU. Nor does it explain how to handle a
conflict should one ever have to drive in France or elsewhere in the
world. Those yards and miles will not be reflected in the roadsigns and
official maps, nor will people on the street who are asked be able to give
directions in FFU.
I doubt they will make any changes, but one way to
mess them up is to ask that FFU be in feet instead of yards. Tell them
Americans don't understand yards. This will conflict with the British use
of yards where the Americans use feet.
In all practicality and reality, the default units
used should be those that the driver will encounter on the road in that country,
not what some people want it to be?
Is France expected to post distance and speeds in
FFUs as the default to please Americans and British?
I will wait a few weeks before I write them
complaining about FFU appearing in German.
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, 2001-08-03 22:31
Subject: [USMA:14757] FW: objection to
Olde English measurements
Here is the repy I received from Maporama (followed by my
message to which he/she was responding):
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From: "Julien
TESSIER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:
RE: objection to Olde English measurements
Hello,
First of all, I thank you for the
interest you have for our website and I hope it will be useful in your daily
life.
As for your mail,
The unit measure we used
before as default was the metric system. Many American and British users did
ask us to change it, in order to have the mile and yard system as
default.
Metric system is still available on our
English service and you can personalise it.
Maporama
website quality is our #1 priority and thanks to your comments we will keep on
reducing the error rate to 0 and ameliorate the quality of our service. Thank
you for your help and the faithfulness you give us.Regards.No�l Lebeaupin,
webmaster. PS : for further information or any problem
please continue to mail us at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address.
-----Original Message-----
From:
Barbara and/or Bill Hooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: vendredi 3 ao�t 2001 04:18
To:
List_Webmaster
Subject: objection to Olde English
measurements
Bon Jour!
I tried to use your web site to get an itinerary from my cousin's home
in
Hemer, Germany to his vacation home in
Obermaiselstein, Germany and was
annoyed to find the
information came up in MILES!
Why would anyone
driving in Germany want or need the information in miles?
The road signs in Germany are in kilometres and the instruments on
the
dashboard of the rental car provide distances in
kilometres and speeds in
kiometres per hour. How can I
use a set of directions in miles when all the
information I see while on the trip is in kilometres?
I did belatedly find that I could click on a special
button to get the
information in kilometres, but why
should I have to waste my time doing this
extra
step?
I don't understand why you degrade the
quality and usefulness your otherwise
fine and useful
web site by providing information in outmoded Olde English
measures.
(Dr.) William Hooper
Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
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