Distance units
The Waze client appears to use three types of unit for distance reporting, miles, decimal fractions of miles and feet.
In the UK we generally use two units for road distance, miles and yards. We do not measure road distance in feet, I measure the size of my bedroom in feet but not the length of my road.
Also "point one miles" doesn't mean a lot to me or many other people I'd imagine, not to mention that it is shockingly poor grammar.
Please can we have a UK units option, that supports miles, half a mile and yards. Thank you.
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Los Kiosk Bears commented
The requests to change the imperial measuring unit from feet to yards have been ongoing since at least 2016. It is now 2023, how difficult is it to do? Do you actually have a development team that are capable of making such a small enhancement?
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Geoff Rousell commented
Not everyone lives in the USA
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Paul Grosvenor commented
Great idea. I'm more comfortable with metric units but want the speed to match road signs.
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GrahamT commented
Stating distances to go in feet is very irritating. It has put me off an otherwise excellent application
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Luke Salvidge commented
Hybrid units, the ability for example to use imperial speed measurement and metric distance measurements and vice versa. Handy for people who prefer distance in kilometers but live somewhere where speed is in miles. A minor thing to add, Google maps already has this
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Richard Ager
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Please give option in settings of using yards instead of feet. Nobody in the UK uses feet for road distances.
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CROSS commented
Please do this ASAP
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Bob
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Option to show and speak Miles & Yards instead of Miles & Feet. Feet is a confusing unit to use while driving!
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Peter English commented
It's my bugbear, too. I have a good idea what a distance is in yards; but not in feet. (Unless I do the mental arithmetic - not a good idea when driving and navigating.)
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Arjun Pachory commented
Have an Automatic option for speedometer and distance units that shows miles or km based on the region.
For those of us who travel and rent cars, it’s quite annoying to change units while on a drive as it is buried within settings.
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Garik Garik commented
Please use yards instead of feet (at least for UK drivers). In UK miles/Yards/km is used, not feet for distance measuring. It's much easier to estimate when to action when the short distance is given in Yards. Or at least let the user's choose Miles/Yards in the settings. Thanks
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Dave Moore commented
Voice to use Miles and Yards vice Miles and Feet
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Dave Prosser commented
Agreed, or at least when your install the app for the first time it should default to the local units rather than kmh
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Chris Woollard commented
I am in the UK and have grown up mostly using Metric units. Most of the world uses the metric system for scientific measurement.
Yes the UK uses Miles and MPH on the roads. So we are stuck with it for some things. Apparently, it costs too much to change.
But please can we have the option of selecting Metric measurements for smaller things?
eg.
Metres instead of Yards / Feet
Centimetres instead of InchesHaving some kind of selector would be great, so then people can choose exactly what they want, for each unit.
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Kevin Morgan commented
I would like to use Waze, but I won't until this thing of using feet instead of yards is sorted...
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Neill Mitchell commented
Came back to Waze again after 3 years to see if they have implemented yards instead of feet. It's the reason I stopped using it because it used to drive me crazy. Amazed to find that this serious shortcoming has still not been addressed. Large distances in feet mean nothing to UK users. The standard unit used here is yards. Why is this simple request still not been implemented? Ridiculous. Every other sat nav supports yards. Uninstalling. I'll try again in another 3 years.
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Jorgen Caceres commented
This!!! It's incredibly annoying to suddenly get a time measure - keep it consistent!!!
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David
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I’ve always found it odd that Waze doesn’t do this.
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Simon Giddings
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I just started using Waze yesterday. I've had enough of it already after just one day. I found these forums while looking for the (surely it must be there but I just can't find it) option to sort my saved places alphabetically. It's looking a lot like the basic things which a huge number of people are asking for, are also things which would be so easy to implement (e.g feet / 3 = yards, there, that was easy Waze wasn't it). Yet these are the things that Waze refuses to implement. How hard is it to divide by 3? How hard it is to sort a list alphabetically? I think I'll switch to an alternative.
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Michael Gee
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In the UK we do not measure driving distances in feet but yards and miles.