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4 Related international standards
Although the metric system is for specifying products and their components only, lumped in with the notion of metrication is often the acceptance of a whole set of international standards:
- Sizes of standard paper, the reams in which they are packed, the locations of holes for ring binders, and the boxes and filing cabinets which contain them;
- though the geographic measurements on maps are of course in meters and kilometers, the scales of the maps themselves are limited to a few standard ones;
- bed frames, mattresses, and their sheets;
- not only the trivial grocery changes of butcher's meat scales and the change of liquor from a fifth of a gallon to 750 milliliters, but also the entire range of cans for preserving foods.
These are what international organizations have specified and have been taken up in fully metric countries. Only the sizes of shoes and clothing are usually multiply labelled.
5 See also
5.1 External links
Neutral:
- [1] - discusses progress of metrication in several countries, from the U.S. Metric Association
Pro:
- [2] - the United Kingdom Metric Association campaigns for a total metric switchover in the UK.
Contra:
- [3] - discusses the freedom to choose a measurement system
- [4] - Metrication as a destruction of culture
