All the maps used in WWI in Flanders were in metric units. The upshot was that shortly after WWI the Brits decided to reissue all the UK military maps using a metric grid (known as the Cassini Grid) - See http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t <http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CC0QF jAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.uwe.ac.uk%2Ffaculties%2FCAHE%2FDocuments%2FResearc h%2FRegional-history%2FRH5Penny.pdf&ei=RPtlVcrfHsLlUsiWgMAO&usg=AFQjCNHwozoj etSppxd6xzHnS423vf2XjQ&bvm=bv.93990622,d.d24> &rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CC0QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.uwe.ac. uk%2Ffaculties%2FCAHE%2FDocuments%2FResearch%2FRegional-history%2FRH5Penny.p df&ei=RPtlVcrfHsLlUsiWgMAO&usg=AFQjCNHwozojetSppxd6xzHnS423vf2XjQ&bvm=bv.939 90622,d.d24. This grid was used for the defence of Britain between 1939 and 1945 and removed the necessity to get paranoiac about converting feet to metres correct to a silly number of decimal places - surveying was done in metric units and nobody else was really interested in using feet and inches to an accuracy of better than 0.01%.
Martin From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ressel, Howard R (DOT) Sent: 27 May 2015 13:02 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:54719] D-Day movie I saw an Omnimax movie at the Science Center in Pittsburg over the weekend. Slick animations and details of the invasion. Tom Brokaw was the narrator and all distances were in kilometers. The movie is produced by N3D films. Their website says they are in France but it was nice to see they didn't dumb it down for American audiences. Howard R. Ressel Project Design Engineer New York State Department of Transportation 1530 Jefferson Road, Rochester, NY 14623 (585) 272-3372 | [email protected] www.dot.ny.gov Metric - the way of the World!
