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Description

English: World Map, colour-coded to show the years the countries started of the process of official conversion to the metric system. Using data from PhD thesis by Hector Vera^[1] and NIST^[2]. Magenta is preliminary 1795, and cyan is 1998; black is for countries having not adopted metric system yet, and grey is for countries with no data on their adoption year. The data used by this map can be viewed by pressing the "Edit" tab and viewing the underlying code.

↑ Vera, Hector (2011-09) The Social Life of Measures: Metrication in the United States and Mexico, 1789–2004 (PhD dissertation)^[1], Sociology and Historical Studies, New School for Social Research, pages 51, 494–497
↑ (20 May 1975) The International Bureau of Weights and Measures 1875–1975: NBS Special Publication 420, Washington, D.C.: National Bureau of Standards, p. 244

Date

18 March 2009

Source

BlankMap-World.svg by various authors

Author

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Other versions

Metric system uptake for statutory purposes (SVG files)
English: By degree. Data from the English Wikipedia Metrication article, the Law of Weights and Measures of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Weights & Measures law of Guam and a June 2019 article by Katharina Buchholz on the Statista statistics portal.
English: By degree.
Data from Vera's PhD thesis on metrication in the United States and Mexico (2011).
English: By date.
Data source not recorded.
English: By date.
Data from NIST (1975) and Vera's PhD thesis on metrication in the United States and Mexico (2011).
English: By system.
Data from Statistica, ANSI, en:Metric Conversion Act, en:Metrication in the United States.

Metric system uptake for statutory purposes (PNG files)
English: By date.
Data from USMA (U.S. Metric Association).

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Source code

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w


use v5.12;
use Data::Dumper;
use strict;
use warnings;

use Graphics::ColorObject;
use Math::Trig;
use SVG::Parser;
use CSS;

use constant DATE_MIN => 1795;
use constant DATE_MAX => 2000;
use constant HUE_START => -60;
use constant HUE_LENGTH => 240;
use constant SATURATION => 0.7;
use constant LIGHTNESS => 0.6;
use constant LEGEND_XLABEL_SIZE => 60;
use constant LEGEND_XPOS => 245;
use constant LEGEND_YPOS => 1250;
use constant LEGEND_XOFF => 100;
use constant LEGEND_YOFF => 50;
use constant LEGEND_WIDTH => 2752.766;
use constant LEGEND_HEIGHT => 250;

my $dates = {
        '1795' => [ 'fr' ],
        '1816' => [ 'nl', 'be', 'lu' ],
        '1840' => [ 'sn', 'dz' ],
        '1849' => [ 'es' ],
        '1852' => [ 'pt' ],
        '1853' => [ 'co', 'mc' ],
        '1857' => [ 'mx', 've' ],
        '1858' => [ 'cu' ],
        '1861' => [ 'it' ],
        '1862' => [ 'pe', 'uy', 'br' ],
        '1864' => [ 'ro' ],                 
        '1865' => [ 'ec', 'cl' ],
        '1867' => [ 'do' ],
        '1868' => [ 'de' , 'bo' ],
        '1869' => [ 'tr' ],
        '1871' => [ 'sr', 'at', 'cz', 'sk', 'hr', 'li', 'si', 'me' ],  
        '1873' => [ 'rs' ],    
        '1874' => [ 'hu', 'se' ],
        '1875' => [ 'ch' ],
        '1876' => [ 'mu' ],
        '1877' => [ 'ar' ],
        '1878' => [ 'ba', 'sc' ],
        '1881' => [ 'cr' ],
        '1882' => [ 'no' ],
        '1884' => [ 'cg', 'ci', 'bj', 'mr', 'ne', 'td' ],
        '1885' => [ 'sv' ],
        '1886' => [ 'fi' ],
        '1888' => [ 'bg', 'mk' ],
        '1891' => [ 'st' ],
        '1893' => [ 'tn', 'ni' ],
        '1895' => [ 'hn' ],
        '1898' => [ 'dj' ],
        '1899' => [ 'py', 'pr' ],
        '1900' => [ 'gq', 'is' ],
        '1901' => [ 'gn' ],   
        '1905' => [ 'mz', 'ao' , 'gw', 'cv' ],  
        '1906' => [ 'ph' ],
        '1907' => [ 'dk', 'sm', 'gl', 'fo' ],    # GL and FO as part of DK
        '1910' => [ 'gt', 'mt', 'bz', 'bi', 'rw', 'cd' ],  
        '1911' => [ 'vn' ],
        '1912' => [ 'th' ],
        '1913' => [ 'cnx' ],    
        '1914' => [ 'km' ],
        '1915' => [ 'pa' ], 
        '1916' => [ 'mn' ],    
        '1918' => [ 'ru' ],
        '1919' => [ 'pl' ],
        '1920' => [ 'ht' ],
        '1922' => [ 'kh', 'ma', 'eh', 'kz', 'kg', 'tj', 'tm', 'uz', 'am', 'az', 'by', 'ee', 'ge', 'lv', 'lt', 'md', 'ua' ],
        '1923' => [ 'ly', 'id', 'af' ],
        '1924' => [ 'tg' ],
        '1927' => [ 'ir' ],
        '1930' => [ 'iq' ],
        '1934' => [ 'sy', 'ad', 'lb' ],
        '1947' => [ 'il' ],
        '1948' => [ 'kp', 'al' ],
        '1949' => [ 'kr' ], 
        '1951' => [ 'eg', 'bt', 'jp' ],
        '1952' => [ 'jo', 'tw' ], 
        '1954' => [ 'sd', 'ss', 'in' ],         # SS was part of SD
        '1957' => [ 'gr', 'mo', 'tl', 'mg' ],
        '1959' => [ 'mv' ],        
        '1960' => [ 'so', 'ga', 'bf', 'ml', 'cf' ],        
        '1961' => [ 'kw', 'cm', 'ae' ],
        '1962' => [ 'et', 'er', 'ng' ],
        '1963' => [ 'np', 'la' ],  
        '1964' => [ 'sa' ],
        '1965' => [ 'gb' ],
        '1967' => [ 'na', 'ie', 'za', 'ke', 'ug', 'tz',  'pk' ],       # NA was part of ZA
        '1968' => [ 'sg'], 
        '1969' => [ 'au', 'nz', 'bs', 'zw', 'bw', 'sz', 'bh', 'gd', 'dm', 'vc', 'kn' ],
        '1970' => [ 'ca', 'lk', 'tt', 'zm', 'ls', 'pg', 'sb' ],
        '1971' => [ 'bm', 'gy', 'my'],        # BM is grouped with GY and MY on the NIST list on p.244
        '1972' => [ 'gh', 'cy', 'fj', 'qa' ],
        '1973' => [ 'bb', 'jm', 'nr' ],
        '1974' => [ 'om', 'ag' ], 
        '1975' => [ 'to' ],
        '1976' => [ 'sl', 'mw', 'gm'], 
        '1978' => [ 'tv' ],
        '1981' => [ 'ye' ],
        '1982' => [ 'bd' ],
        '1984' => [ 'ki' ],
        '1985' => [ 'bn' ],
        '1988' => [ 'vu' ],
        '2000' => [ 'lc' ]
};
my $css = new CSS( { 'parser' => 'CSS::Parse::Lite', 'adaptor' => 'CSS::Adaptor::Pretty' } ); 

my $svg=SVG::Parser->new()->parsefile($ARGV[0]);
my $css_container = $svg->getElementbyID('style_css_sheet');
my $css_data = $css_container->{-cdata};
$css_data =~ s!/\*.*?\*\/!!gs;
$css->read_string( $css_data );
my $hue_start = deg2rad(HUE_START);
my $hue_length = deg2rad(HUE_LENGTH, 1);
foreach my $date( sort keys %$dates ) {
	my $hue = $hue_start + (1-(DATE_MAX - $date)/(DATE_MAX - DATE_MIN)) * $hue_length;
	$css->read_string( sprintf 
		"%s {\n\tfill: #%s;\n}\n",
		join (', ', map { ".$_" } @{$dates->{$date{{),
		Graphics::ColorObject->new_HSL([rad2deg($hue), SATURATION, LIGHTNESS])->as_RGBhex()
	);
}
$css->read_string( ".us, .mm, .lr { fill: #333333 } " );

# say($css->output());
$css->get_style_by_selector( '.landxx' )->get_property_by_name( 'stroke' )->{values} = [new CSS::Value({value => 'black'})];
$css->get_style_by_selector( '.landxx' )->get_property_by_name( 'fill' )->{values} = [new CSS::Value({value => '#FFFFD0'})];
# $css->get_style_by_selector( '.lake' )->get_property_by_name( 'stroke' )->{values} = [new CSS::Value({value => '#1821DE'})];
$css->get_style_by_selector( '.oceanxx' )->get_property_by_name( 'fill' )->{values} = [new CSS::Value({value => '#9ec7f3'})];
my $coastxx = $css->get_style_by_selector( '.coastxx' );
$coastxx->add_property( new CSS::Property( { property => 'stroke', value => '#1821DE' } ) );
$coastxx->add_property( new CSS::Property( { property => 'stroke-opacity', value => '1.0' } ) );
$coastxx->add_property( new CSS::Property( { property => 'stroke-width', value => '0.5' } ) );
my $legend = $svg->group( 
	id => 'legend',
	transform => 'translate('.LEGEND_XPOS.','.LEGEND_YPOS.') scale(0.8)'
);
my $gradient = $legend->gradient(
	-type => "linear",
	id    => "legend_gradient"
);
my $legend_box = $legend->rectangle(
	x     => 0, y      => 0,
	width => LEGEND_WIDTH, height => LEGEND_HEIGHT,
	rx    => 10, ry     => 10,
	id    => 'legend_box'
);

my $gradbox = $legend->rectangle(
	x     => LEGEND_XOFF, y      => LEGEND_YOFF,
	width => LEGEND_WIDTH - LEGEND_XOFF * 2, height => 100,
	id    => 'legend_grad'
);

{
	my $span = scalar keys %$dates;
	my $counter = 0;
	foreach my $date( sort keys %$dates ) {
		my $hue = $hue_start + (1-(DATE_MAX - $date)/(DATE_MAX - DATE_MIN)) * $hue_length;
		$gradient->stop(
			offset => sprintf( "%d%%", $counter / $span * 100 ),
			'stop-color' => '#'.Graphics::ColorObject->new_HSL([rad2deg($hue), SATURATION, LIGHTNESS])->as_RGBhex(),
		);
		++$counter;
	}
	my $datespan = DATE_MAX - DATE_MIN;
	foreach my $id(0..10) {
		my $xpos = LEGEND_XOFF + $id / 10 * (LEGEND_WIDTH - LEGEND_XOFF * 2);
		$legend->line(
			x1 => $xpos - 2,
			x2 => $xpos - 2,
			y1 => LEGEND_YOFF,
			y2 => 170,
			'stroke-width' => '4',
		);
		$legend->text( 
			x =>  $xpos - LEGEND_XLABEL_SIZE,
			y => 220,
			fill => 'black',
			'font-family' => 'sans-serif',
			'fill-opacity' => 1,
			'font-size' => LEGEND_XLABEL_SIZE,
			'stroke' => 'none',
		)->cdata(DATE_MIN + int($id/10 * $datespan) );
	}
}


$css->read_string( "#legend { fill: #d0d0d0; fill-opacity: .3; stroke: black; stroke-width: 10; } " );
$css->read_string( "#legend_grad { fill: url(#legend_gradient); fill-opacity: 1; stroke: black; stroke-width: 1; } " );

$css_container->CDATA( "\n".$css->output() );

print $svg->xmlify();

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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	14:36, 6 September 2019	2,754 × 1,398 (1.07 MB)	Cherkash	changed legend background color
	23:42, 5 September 2019	2,754 × 1,398 (1.07 MB)	Cherkash	added Faroe Islands
	23:00, 5 September 2019	2,754 × 1,398 (1.07 MB)	Cherkash	updated to the newest baseline blank map, added circles; reused latest version's legend/data with updates: Turkey updated (per Vera ref); no mention in refs of Palestine's differing from Israel; Bermuda moved by one year (per NIST ref)
	19:25, 19 July 2019	2,560 × 1,314 (1.13 MB)	De728631	added Turkey, Greenland, West Bank
	14:45, 19 June 2018	2,560 × 1,314 (1.06 MB)	AzaToth	Hue moved 60° down and increased length to 240° from 120°; other changes applied since before.
	09:40, 31 July 2012	940 × 477 (1.54 MB)	Htonl	Alter CSS to apply same colour to Namibia as South Africa - Namibia (SWA) was at the time part of South Africa and the South African metrication law applied.
	02:21, 23 March 2009	940 × 477 (1.54 MB)	AzaToth	correctify the gradient
	02:13, 23 March 2009	940 × 477 (1.54 MB)	AzaToth	don't want to have ugly gray there :/
	02:11, 23 March 2009	940 × 477 (1.54 MB)	AzaToth	forgot to readd the ocean color
	02:07, 23 March 2009	940 × 477 (1.54 MB)	AzaToth	updated with legend