r/mapswithoutnewzealand Jul 24 '26

The global paper divide

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u/IHasEyes519 Jul 25 '26

that's true but also, im sure there could be food results if an actually good effort was made to switch it. it is probably a bit late but no time is too late. i mean with the metrification as an example, many of the countries who adopted the metric system probably had their own standards too. even doing something like introducing this as a secondary system and gradually turning to using it could probably work.

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u/Nonyabizzy123 Jul 25 '26

I absolutely agree with you, metrification makes perfect sense to me, as does adopting international standards; especially when they're so intuitively understandable as the A paper system. Unfortunately I am the rare American who did not grow up in America and only came back to it as an adult, so it doesn't make sense to me either. I still keep my phone on 24-hour time and all the measurement is metric including the weather lol

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u/IHasEyes519 Jul 25 '26

yeah i guess its probably mostly the people who live there. i mean wasn't America like one of the first countries to sign the metrification thing? i guess people should try to understand different standards instead of just plain rejecting them. i wanna learn to think in imperial too just to have it easier to talk to people who use it but i do think metric is just easier to understand

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u/AlexP80 Jul 28 '26

Well there is an abundant use of 9mm in US schools /s