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
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Miles and yards - or even miles and meters. But not miles and feet!
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Jim
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Looks great
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Jim
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Give the capacity to a user to select the units (miles or Km) separately for distances and speed. As an example, some European users in the UK are used to navigate in Km but the speeds limits are set in miles. The actual settings will not let you have different units set for speed and distance. I believe this easy feature will be very welcomed by many users.
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Anonymous
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Provide miles and yards option for UK users.
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Anonymous
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I agree. Feet is weird they should change it to yards so that we can tell exactly how far until we have to turn!
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Anonymous
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Change feet to yards ! I am a professional driver and do not enjoy using feet as a measurement. Please change it to yards............
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[Deleted User]
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I prefer yards to feet aswell
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Freda Checks
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Please think about an option to have yards (not feet) as distances. So in UK = Miles + yards (or even Miles + metres).
We do not think of using feet over long distances!
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M Taylor
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Pease use yards instead of feet
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Anonymous
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Happy 7th Birthday to this thread! - I can’t cope with feet - prefer miles and meters like Tomtom provides
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Anonymous
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In UK we use miles and yards not miles and feet could you add another option
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Mick
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Feet are for small distances up to about 50 feet and even that is pushing it, yards are for bigger distances Please implement the divide by 3 option in the settings otherwise it gets booted as far as I can which will be about 365 inches.
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Patrick Walsh
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I like Waze in general but giving the units of distance on feet is useless so after trying it for one journey I have now stopped using it.
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Dan
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As an International traveller who uses hire cars and Waze, I would like to be able to set Waze up to tell me distances in METRIC and set my speed to be reported in MILES.
This way, I can relate to the dashboard (which is always in MPH or KPH) AND I can confidently judge how far the next turn is...(personally I have no sense of a 1/4 of a mile but I instinctively know how far 400 metres is).
At the moment, I believe can only have either METRIC or IMPERIAL and it is set for both SPEE AND DISTANCE.
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Anonymous
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I agree with this - feet are useless in UK
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Simon
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I agree, feet is crazy, buy the time you have listened to it, you’ve gone sailing past. Who on earth uses feet for navigation. I’ve stopped using it now.
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Paul
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The distance used in the UK is mainly miles and then yards for when junctions are calculated. When travelling using sat nav devices we do not use feet and the measurement is too small.
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Richard Otley
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Waze is owned by Google isn't it? Google maps navigation uses miles and yards for notifications. I prefer Waze for the less cluttered display and better landscape view. But, I agree with other brits who although in the minority have found the "feet" thing a real pain.
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Richard Husband
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Feet makes NO sense as nobody uses it. Yard is far more commonly used.
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Anonymous
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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)