Ezra, British academia and internal British government documents are very good at using metric units. It is once they communicate to "Joe Public" that newspaper editors hit the "convert to imperial" button.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 November 2008 04:18 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:41978] UK map site I came across this interesting web site with various kinds of statistical maps from the University of Sheffield: http://www.worldmapper.org The one map I checked out was all in metric, which was nice. I'm presuming they all are. (Would that the British press did likewise. In fact, I was surprised to hear a correspondent for the BBC World Service in Aghanistan use "feet" to describe the height of the mountain he was on. At first I assumed it was because he may have been talking with American troops who used that unit among themselves, but then I realized that the US military is all metric these days, too, which means they would have used "meters". Curious.) Ezra
