No I'm in the UK today and it defaulted to feet.
On 08/11/2011, at 20:09 , Kilopascal wrote: > It may work by IP address. If your IP address is in the US, they default to > feet. The rest of the world may have the default as metres. I'm sure they > do it this way so that they don't get flooded with emails from those who get > the wrong units showing as the default don't flood them with emails asking > them to convert. > > [USMA:51309] Re: ...and here's how not to do it. > > John M. Steele > Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:38:14 -0800 > > There is a link at the top right of the page to switch to metric. Since they > call it a list of 8000+ m peaks, they should default to metric, but at least > they have that choice. > > --- On Tue, 11/8/11, Remek Kocz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Remek Kocz <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:51308] ...and here's how not to do it. > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 5:08 PM > > > Among mountain climbers, The Eight-Thousanders are the 14 mountain peaks > above > 8000 meters. Peakbagger.com purports to serve the climber community, and > here > is how they deal with The Eight-Thousanders: > > http://www.peakbagger.com/list.aspx?lid=200 > > Definitely not the way to go about it. Oddly enough, some of their charts > are > metric-only, while others are FFU only. > > Remek
