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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za hussa commented
The feet is always make confusion. Please use yards
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za hussa commented
Telling count down in feet make me calculate feet to yards in every turns
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Gaz commented
First time user today.. why oh why is the distance in feet.. got to my destination and deleted Waze app... apparently there's no option for yards.. until sorted I'm going back to Google maps
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Vicki commented
Yes. I came here to say exactly this! No one in the UK talks about 1000 feet. It’s meaningless. Better to say 300 yards. How hard can it be to change this? I see there have been similar comments for several years! I too am not keen on using the app until it’s changed.
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paul SEERS commented
all other satnavs use yards instead of feet. this is putting me off useing waze.
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william paine commented
Kind of a combination of several previous ideas but...
I'd like to see the distance units options split in two: with "km", "Mile", and "Local" on the first slider; and "Ft", "Yd", and "m" on the second.
The first slider would continue to control which units were used for long distance directions, speed limits, ect. However, the local option would switch automatically switch between "Mile" and "km" depending on where you were. For example, if your in the UK, the "Local" option would put the display in miles. However, if you then crossed the channel to Europe, it would automatically switch to Km.
The second slider would control the units used for instructions (visual and spoken) near a junction. This is important because many people (in countries like the UK) have never used Feet or Yards, with the meter being the unit of choice. But equally, using the Km on waze in a country that puts its signs in Miles is quite unhelpful.
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Nick Sticks commented
I second this, much more natural for UK drivers.
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george leonowicz commented
In the uk, nobody thinks in feet when driving, can we have the option of yards please
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Ken Byrne commented
I can visualise distance in yards but feet makes it very difficult to estimate where I need to turn on roads with multiple junctions.
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Ken Byrne commented
I have just tried waze and really liked it apart from using feet instead of yards. Not going use it until this is sorted as I an option is.
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James Farrar commented
Add me to the list of people not using your app until this essential and simple change is made.
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David Baker commented
I totally agree Miles & Yards, just like TomTom, Audi and most other Navs I've tried
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Mannie commented
Yes this is important. I personally want miles for journey distance and metres for junctions and turnings
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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 commented
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