US Distance Should be Miles and 10ths of a Mile

[Donald W Stewart]

@Corjan-Meijerink Lets make it unanimous. Odometers read in decimal, so lets use 1/10 mile as opposed to yards. It would be great if the hole world worked in km, but that won't be any time soon

[paul69]

here in the UK, we mix a lot, driving is miles, as is MPH, but someone may say that a pub is 200metres that way, but wouldn't say the pub is 1 km that way, more likely to say half a mile.
I agree decimal points for miles please

[Corjan Meijerink]

Thanks a lot for everybody responding here! The voice of the community is stronger than simply one person requesting something.

Just to help me out completely: do you ever want yards? Or just show a minimum of 0.1 mile? Or what makes sense? You can imagine that 0.005 miles might look strange But showing 0.1 miles is still quite a lot distance when having multiple manoeuvres after each other.

[paul69]

@Corjan-Meijerink

this might have to be a show of hands,

short distances, would not make much sense to me, if it tells me, " turn left in 0.06 miles away", but I would be able to judge "turn left in 100 metres".

this is what I mean, that in the uk we mix it up,
I might tell someone "there is a T junction in half a mile, turn left and the entrance is 50 metres on the left.

confusing!!!!

[Con Hennekens]

@paul-69 said in US Distance Should be Miles and 10ths of a Mile:

confusing!!!!

YES! Go Metric, please!

[Steve Autera]

@Corjan-Meijerink

Hello, for distances below 1/10th of a mile I would prefer to see feet.

Thanks

[Nick Carthew]

It’s easy, 1/10th of a mile is 176 yards
2/10ths are 352 yards
3/10ths are 528 yards
4/10ths are 704 yards
5/10ths are 880 yards.

1/4 of a mile is 440 yards.
1/2 a mile is 880 yards.
3/4 of a mile is 1320 yards.

Personally, I could settle for any distance from 1 mile or over could be expressed with 1/0ths example 2.7 miles.
For distances under 1 mile use yards (or metres)

Imperial measurements.
There are 16 ounces in a pound, not to be confused with our currency.

12 inches to a foot not to be confused with the one on the end of your leg.

8 pints = 1 gallon

The Imperial pint contains 20 British fluid oz equal to 28.413 ml each. The American pint, by contrast, contains 16 US fluid oz equal to 29.574 ml each. This makes the US fluid ounce 4% larger than the Imperial one. The Imperial pint is approximately 20% larger than the US pint.

Fresh water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit and boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

Whoever invented the metric system is completely off their heads.
We like to keep things simple in the UK

[Corjan Meijerink]

@paul-69 But….that is meters? So you use miles, yards, feet and meters?
@Steve-Autera And now we’re using feet.

Damn, this is getting so confusing!

[Corjan Meijerink]

So the options are:

• leave as it is right now. Measurement in miles and everything below 1 mile is displayed in yards
• do not use yards but keep displaying miles till 0.1 mile, then use feet
• same as above but meters instead of feet

Given the limitations of the website (merely distinguish between metric and imperial) the solution needs to satisfy UK and US

[Nick Carthew]

@Corjan-Meijerink said in US Distance Should be Miles and 10ths of a Mile:

So the options are:

• leave as it is right now. Measurement in miles and everything below 1 mile is displayed in yards
• do not use yards but keep displaying miles till 0.1 mile, then use feet
• same as above but meters instead of feet

Given the limitations of the website (merely distinguish between metric and imperial) the solution needs to satisfy UK and US

I would prefer option 3 even though it’s probably the most difficult to implement 🫢

Sorry mate.

[Stefan Hummelink]

Muhahahaha I just can't help but link this awesome sketch regarding metric vs. Imperial.
https://youtu.be/GDUt-Kbxqsg

Jason, Jason, Jason..... Just watch the video.

[Nick Carthew]

@StefanHummelink said in US Distance Should be Miles and 10ths of a Mile:

Muhahahaha I just can't help but link this awesome sketch regarding metric vs. Imperial.
https://youtu.be/GDUt-Kbxqsg

Jason, Jason, Jason..... Just watch the video.

Nailed it - well done Jason.

[paul69]

@Corjan-Meijerink said in US Distance Should be Miles and 10ths of a Mile:

@paul-69 But….that is meters? So you use miles, yards, feet and meters?

yes unfortunately I do, so I might not be much help on this,

[Steve Autera]

Prefer option 2 - miles, 10ths of a mile, and below 1/10 use feet.

[Dave J 0]

@Nick-Carthew I agree with you Nick Option 3 would be my preferred choice from the list although Option 2 would be ok but better as yds.
@Corjan-Meijerink As another thought however, you could have the distance broken down by 3/4, 1/2, and 1/4 mile/km to go with meters, yards or feet below the 1/4 mile/km. Unfortunately, the imperial versus metric debate will prevail as US uses Imperial but the UK adopted metric apart from our road system and some alcoholic drink measures. I was brought up with the metric system so I would prefer meters as the closer breakdown but that will depend on your background, as well as outdoor experience (maps etc). I had a quick look at TomTom and it provide 3/4, 1/2 etc but Garmin provides just metric and Imperial in yds (I think) as whole and 0.5.
Not sure that you will be able to provide the configuration that everyone wants but the key appears to be having a good warning and idea of when the turn is, particularly when there are a lot of turns in the same direction close together. It would be useful to know how configurable this aspect can be made from your Progammer’s perspective as this will be the driver?

[Con Hennekens]

@StefanHummelink, barleycorn is new to me
The best part: "You wanted it simple", "It's too late for that"