Default measurement units

[Roger CO]

Apologies if this is an faq (it should be) but a search here isn't giving an answer. How can I force osmand to use kilometers and metres as the default measurement units. At present every time I start it it flips back to miles which is a right royal pain. (yes I am in the UK but prefer to use km for cycling)
Thanks, RogerCO

[nickjoh...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, 27 July 2017 10:10:39 UTC+1, Roger CO wrote:

Apologies if this is an faq (it should be) but a search here isn't giving an answer. How can I force osmand to use kilometers and metres as the default measurement units. At present every time I start it it flips back to miles which is a right royal pain. (yes I am in the UK but prefer to use km for cycling)
Thanks, RogerCO

Go to Settings -> General Settings -> Driving Region -> select either India or Japan (left-hand driving but with sane units)

Nick

[nickjoh...@gmail.com]

Whoops, Japan or Australia I mean.

[Greg Troxel]

I had this problem too. I think there is a bug where it looks at the
region and changes the units settings on start. I worked around this
(in the US) by setting region to Canada, because it has the same rules
mostly but is metric.

I haven't read the code, but basically I think the units should have the
choice of "metric, nautical, imperical, default", where "default" means
"follow driving region". So one you set to metric, it should stay
metric. Right now it feels like units get set according to region on
startup.

[Paul Johnson]

A "nice-to-have" would be to change this to just drive-on-left/right and metric/imperial.  Eliminates weird edge cases like people in the US more comfortable with metric, Americans in Canada, mainland Europeans in the UK, etc...