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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 twolpert over 1 year ago in reply to MilA

The forums are not an official support channel. You can submit suggestions here:

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/

If you want to be a bit more emphatic, you can open a support ticket. Support will just tell you "that's the way it is". But the more people who complain, the more likely it is to get fixed (sooner rather than later). And if it ever DOES get fixed, you'll be notified because of the ticket.

0 wander_ over 1 year ago in reply to twolpert

Just did this, again.

0 6591133 over 1 year ago

What an embarrassment. How can Garmin think that 95% of the humans on the planet do not matter. Certainly not behaving like a company worth $20B

0 2109083 over 1 year ago

How can this be ignored for five years? Poor management and team overall.