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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Anonymous commented
My first day on Waze and I'm contemplating leaving already. Thousands of feet cannot be comprehended... Please give us the option of yards (or even miles and metres)
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Adenann commented
This thread has been going on since 2013 so I don't expect anything to change soon. However, if you don't ask you don't get.
I don't think we in the UK have mixed signage of miles and metres. If we're using Imperial units it's miles and yards.
At the moment, I get some directions in decimal miles, 1.1, 1.2, etc. Others though are in fractions of miles for 1 1/4, 1 1/2, 1 3/4. My preference would be to keep the quarter, half and three quarters and have all the others in yards.
I've seen elsewhere that others mentally convert what is said into their "internal" units. I too do this, i.e. 1000ft being a bit over 300yds but it's amazing how much the small amount of brain power required to do this takes so much concentration on the road.
The solution is, of course, to make everything configurable like major units of kilometres or miles and minor units of metres, yards and feet.
The dificulty, I imagine, is for the existing voice recordings needing to be upgraded considerably.
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Anonymous commented
Actually in the UK we use Miles and metres. All road signs use either miles or metres now, yards are also depreciated.
Decimal miles is fine, but miles and metres please! The easiest way to acheive this is to allow control over all units used.
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AJ commented
I would like the option to mix units of distance. I would like miles/meter
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Anonymous commented
Agree!
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Anonymous commented
Use DISTANCE not time for navigation audible directions. When driving, distance is the only measurement. If I have 52 miles to my next action, the time to get there can vary with conditions, but the distance will not change. Hearing "continue for one hour and 3 minutes" has no value because if conditions change, I may only travel 30 miles. It is easy for a driver to estimate time based on distance and current speed. Additionally, the screen will always update estimated arrival time.
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David in the UK commented
I wholeheartedly agree with this suggestion. UK drivers and road signs use miles and yards, NOT miles and feet. It is really confusing when Waze says "in 900 ft..." when we would say "in 300 yd..."! PLEASE add separate distance options for imperial (US) and imperial (UK) (as well as metric, obviously). The TomTom app already has these 3 options and it's time Waze followed suit. Please don't forget us UK users!
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Mick Pattison commented
I agree entirely, Feet as a unit of measure is useless after around 20 feet, do away with comments at 1000 feet and just give instructions at say 250 yards , half a mile, and fractions of miles. You shouldn't mix decimals and fractions in the imperial system
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Anonymous commented
Your country and USA should do the only right thing and join the metric-system! ;)