How to change topo map elevation contours from feet to meters

Hi,

A fresh thread on the matter ongoing for 5 years, the topo map contours in the Explore App on the smartphone can show meters, why is that not possible on the web interface after turning the measurement units to meters ?

Is there a solution now that has not been sent to the public ?

Thanks.

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beaver_it 11 months ago in reply to Garmin-Leslie +4

I'm sorry but I can't understand why Garmin can't display contour lines in meters. Topoactive is based on OSM maps such as OpenTopoMap (https://opentopomap.org/) which uses meters and not feet…
loosepipe over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Leslie +2

Hi, Ok, so it is Not possible to have elevation in topography expressed in meters instead of feets.

Noted the solution with using the waypoints to get the elevation in meters.

Regards.
beaver_it 11 months ago in reply to Garmin-Leslie +1

They should see elevation contours of area around my position/track in meters to correctly understand the morphology of the territory.

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0 2712062 6 months ago

Garmin finally seems to have fixed this.

0 beaver_it 6 months ago in reply to 2712062

I still see the maps with the contour lines expressed in feet...

0 2712062 6 months ago in reply to beaver_it

I got an iOS app update today, and it is showing in metres

0 2712062 6 months ago in reply to 2712062

Ugh. The web version is the same

0 Bachu 5 months ago

It's incredible that this cant be solved.
In android we see it right, so it's just a matter of Garmin that doesn't want to fix it for web.

Metric system is the most used worldwide, but still Garmin prefers to put maps without it?

Instead of making a buggy app, why don't you partner with Gaia or any other good app and make a really great app for your customers?

My solution: I do everything in Gaia, export gpx, import it in Explore and sync with watch. It's the only reason I use this app because of the limitations I found in it.

0 guilopo 27 days ago

Hello,

It is very annoying to have topomaps showing contours in feet and not in meters. We are not discussing about the possibilities of knowing the meters or doing the math ... if I understand the users request, which I'm fully in, the map in the web interface should have a configuration option to let users choose the default metrics system plotted in the map (miles/feet, km/m, etc). I dislike a lot to see all the contours in feet... actually, the webinterface is quite crap, I wish garmin decides to devote more resources to update it. I know many users use the phone app, which seems to be more functional, but to explore and prepare routes while you are searching information in other browser tabs etc. the web interface on a big screen is essential! I would love garmin improves the web interface a lot... but I'm not sure if that is going to happen. The answer from the garmin support representative in this post are quite arrogant telling users how to read maps... amazing. This is a bug/limitation of the web interface, and the users just want it to be fixed because is not that difficult and because most of the world uses the ISO international metric system. Period.