Comment 66730

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted July 21, 2011 at 14:35:59

Ryan,

I know this may sound pedantic, but Canada officially converted to the metric system in the mid 1970s (with some resistance and exceptions) and it would be simpler if RTH also standardized on Canada's official system. This has already caused some confusion as people try to convert between various measures of population density, distances etc.

Could you please quote areas as ha and population densities as people/ha. This is the usual standard for urban population densities internationally and it is easy to convert these to densities per square km, if necessary (1 ha = 0.01 square km, so simply multiply the /ha figure by 100 to get /km^2). Another common measure of urban density is m^2 per person, which is also easy to get from the ha data.

It is also pretty easy to visualize a hectare as it is 100m squared (and road distances are measured in metres or kilometres). I doubt that many RTH readers could easily visualize an acre (how many feet or yards on a side?), or know the various subdivisions of length and area measures in the imperial system (rods, perches, chains, roods, furlongs etc.)

Nicholas p.s. 1 acre = 0.404685642 ha

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