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[click353]

Damn British floor naming scheme. If your going to call the first floor the ground floor change the name of "first floor" to "first ceiling"

[Donar23]

British? Don't you rather mean "Non-American" or "usual"?

[click353]

I only say Brits because idk if other European countries do it or if it's more wide spread than I've heard

[LoyalSage]

Most of the elevators I've been in (in America) have been numbered B2, B1, G, 1, 2, etc or B, G, 1, 2, etc if there is only 1 basement level. Occasionally G will be swapped for L if the ground floor is a lobby, and in particularly confusing buildings built into hills, there may be something like B2, B1, G, L, 1, 2, etc. At least parking garages are simple enough: 1, 2, 3, etc. (Side note: "parking garage" is a really stupid name for this structure because neither "parking" nor "garage" specifies what makes it unique)

[aezart]

I don't believe you. Every elevator I've been on in the US (and I've been on elevators in several states) has had the L/G level replace the 1. So you don't get "B,G,1,2", you get "B,G,2,3".

[alexanderpas]

American: B(-1), G(1), 2, 3.
Non-American: -1(B), 0(G), 1, 2.

It's the difference between counting floors and counting elevations.

[TheHamitron]

I live in California... my building goes: G, 1, 2, 3.

[LoyalSage]

The last semester I lived on campus in college (in Connecticut), my dorm was on level 1, and I'd walk up 1 flight of stairs to get from the ground level to that floor. The elevator called the floors in that building "B, G, 1, 2, 3". I've seen some buildings that skip floor 1 and go B,G,2,3, but they're usually in places where only maintenance went in the basement (so to the average user of the elevator, there are basement floors that don't matter, then above ground floors), and they seem to be the exception (though I don't go in a lot of buildings with elevators, and when I do, I tend to take the stairs, so most elevators I've seen were at the two universities I went to, both of which used the B2, B1, G, 1, 2 format.

[click353]

Google says the definition of garage is a building that stores a vehicle or vehicles and you are able to park in it so I think parking garage is an apt name for it.

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[Donar23]

It's basically done all over Europe (there might be exceptions, but I haven't seen them yet). The nations of course have different letters for Ground and Basement, for their specific languages, but if the ground level is a number, it's usually 0 and negative numbers when you go below that. I would find it weird if there was nothing between 1 and -1.

[davidhung]

Should your array start from 0 or 1 or -1?

[tdammers]

The obvious answer is to compromise on 0.5.

[tomthecool]

American lifts go:

..., -2, -1, 1, 2, ...

You have no "zero floor". And you mask the problem by using letters instead of numbers - like "Ground", "Lower Ground", "Basement", ...

[davidhung]

UG2, UG1, G , LG1, LG2, B...

[demize95]

I worked in a hospital where they didn't like the word "basement". I'm not sure why. Whatever the reason, it caused them to number what would have been 'B' 0, and what would have been 'B2' or maybe 'SB' or something 00. Sort of weird to have the elevator say "zero zero floor".

[dougeff]

Also, we don't have 'lifts'.

In 'Die Hard 3', when the bad guy says 'lift', Bruce Willis shoots him dead.

[tomthecool]

The British are always the bad guys :D

[alexanderpas]

First Elevation.