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Ground floor: 1

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Via Postbubble I came across standpedia. It is provided by the same team who developed standpoint.

I've just had a play with standpedia and I like it.

Rather than try to explain what it does, here is a pic of what I created at standpedia:

Got it? Like wikis, anyone (that has registered) can edit.

The above is far as I got. Will I go back again? I don't know...but - on the question:

Do you think is makes sense that the ground floor is known as '1'?

In Europe (I include the UK in that definition) the ground floor is 0. I think that makes sense.

(While waiting for meeting to start yesterday I passed the time by randomly externalizing the same thought. Helpfully, a colleague quipped "Yeah, I made the same observation when I was a child, and I got over it. ")

What do you think? Feel free to comment your views and supporting arguments. I'll have a go at documenting on standpedia and see how it develops...

Or you can add them yourself here.

(PS: you need to double click on the boxes to expand out - it's all the Ajax Flash rage, don't you know!...)

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  • Anonymous
    June 29, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    June 29, 2006
    Obviously a source of confusion, and no matter what you do there will be problems in labelling floors below ground (does everyone understand negative numbers?).

    So I suggest numbering from the top down. So the ground floor of a 3-storey building would be labelled '3'. I wonder which standards org looks after these things...
  • Anonymous
    June 29, 2006
    Let's say you have some items. If the first item is called zero what is no items called? Floor numbers are used for counting. A floor zero is not logical.
  • Anonymous
    June 29, 2006
    By the way array indexes should start at one for the same reason. If you want a zero element it should be used for some special purpose like holding meta data.
  • Anonymous
    July 03, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    July 03, 2006
    Er.... I mean standpedia... not planpedia... ouch.
  • Anonymous
    July 03, 2006
    planpedia....i like it!
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