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Can the Explore Web Map contours be in meters?

wander_ over 5 years ago

Can the Explore Web map be switched to be meters in lieu of feet?

thanks

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wander_ over 5 years ago in reply to Garmin-Heath +11

Pretty nutty decision, but I am guessing Garmin has access to all the preferences that customers all over the world make which suggests USA being the largest block who have not been able to change to SI…
IceBear over 5 years ago in reply to Garmin-Heath +7

According to Reddit “The Earth has a population of 7.046 billion. 94.7% of the world uses the metric system by population”

Likewise there are only three countries that DO NOT use metric.
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makmegs over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin-Heath +7

I have to say, this is an incredible short sighted decision on your part Garmin, and you knew that majority of the world uses metres. Is there no way of having the choice or even two different caches depending…

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0 1678713 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Heath

Yeah, now I see why old tracks keep reapear every sync even though everything cleared from device and on site. It's just buggy and uncomfortable software in every INCH of it.

0 wander_ over 3 years ago

So I asked this question two years ago. A pretty fundamental navigation requirement is to have all you maps using the same units, but in two years all I have heard is crickets from garmin and plenty of other users asking the same question.

0 Craig P over 3 years ago

Is there seriously no way to show contours in meters on the Explore web map? I'm regretting this decision more and more every day.

0 9901074 over 3 years ago

It's really sad that it's not fixed yet. So I head towards https://calculerunpourcentage.net/

0 Cubix85 over 2 years ago

We are in 2022... and this problem has never been solved!

0 DJGShef over 1 year ago

This is another argument for allowing alternative base maps to be used in Explore.

0 2303947 over 1 year ago

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0 twolpert over 1 year ago in reply to 2303947

The OP is not asking about distances. The OP (at least in the thread title) is asking about contour lines. While the distance units can be changed to metric, the contour intervals cannot.

0 wander_ over 1 year ago in reply to twolpert

Correct.

To do this Garmin have to change the source map and for some reason that is a problem.

I wonder if Garmin would leave such a glaring mismatch (it's deeper than just the contours, the map UTM is also very limited a few variants of WGS84, in Australia that is more then hundred metres out E & N) live in their military or airline products?

0 MilA over 1 year ago

Please fix this!