This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me. - eviltoast
  • Broken@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Hot tip in the US. In an elevator the floor with the star is the ground floor, regardless of what number is present. This helps clarify any confusion between systems and also is clear for locations that have floors below the ground floor (I’ve most commonly seen this with parking structures)

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      2 months ago

      In Sweden, maybe the rest of the EU, the entrance floor (entrevåning) has a green ring around it.

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      2 months ago

      I’ve seen multiple hospitals where the floor with the main entrance is 2, those will get the star. So it’s more of a “here’s how you leave” indicator rather than ground specifically

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        2 months ago

        Yes, that’s a good example I’ve seen too. So was the 2 not the ground floor?

        I guess I’ve also seen places where the terrain is not even, so there are multiple entrances on different levels. I didn’t take notice of what the elevators said though.