I think that the BWMA would claim that 'the mile' is used in Sweden and Norway, so that many people would believe that these countries use the US/UK unit. The BWMA would hide what these countries really use.
Thank goodness, that Maporama changed to the correct defaults before that site was found and explored by BWMA members. The non-metric defaults in all languages would have been enormously valuable for their propaganda. Imagine: "More proof that our system is popular in Europe! Major European itinerary and map website uses Imperial yards and miles as the default units in ALL LANGUAGES! A new coup for our Imperial system!" I have not found any reference to Maporama on their sites, however. When I loaded Maporama a few days ago, it even defaulted to the French language! All the options, languages and units are still there but people who use the metric system no longer have to 'personalize' their preferences; those who do not use metric have to do that now. Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "kilopascal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, 2003-02-14 0:28 Subject: [USMA:24847] Re: different miles > 2003-02-13 > > I'll bet if you tell someone from Britain or the US that two cities are "60 miles" apart, they will not understand it to mean 600 km, but about 100 km. > Of course they will not understand it to mean anything in kilometres. When the British and Americans hear the word mile, be it land, sea or air, Schwedisch, German, French, or Chinese, etc., it will always mean the version their car odometer is calibrated in. As far as these people are concerned, there is only one size mile. John <snip>
