The absurdity of the use of kph

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  First and foremost I apologise (yet again) for such a long gap in between blog posts. The return of freedom over the past year has kept me away from screens. They say it takes 66 days to develop a new habit. Running is a habit I developed over lockdown, but the return to the office (and I intend to never work from home again) and frequenting the pub has reduced frequency of this.  It is, however, not completely bleak for my physical well-being. Cramming a number of social events in after work has led to me doing a lot more walking around central London. I don’t have an Apple Watch, (other brands of smart watch exist), but my iPhone records my steps and a lot of really interesting data on my walking and running. As would be no surprise, I’ve configured everything in metric units. Thankfully, gone are the days where Apple would dictate to you , based on your location, the units of measurement you use. You have a chose whether to specify distances in miles or kilometres. You al

Why I hate multimap...

They show no metric scales... They only show miles/yards and that crap.. see below

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theglob said…
I'ts a shame that multimap does not display metric units for the UK, I've also noticed it switches between metric and imperial depending on the country whose map you are viewing. That will probably change once the UK road signs go metric I think.

I prefer ViaMichelin myself for journey planning, and also Streetmap, both are wholly (or almost wholly) metric. Sometimes I use Google Maps which at least allows us to switch to metric.
Avoura said…
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Avoura said…
I gave up on Multimap a long time ago because of this. I complained to them and I do not remember receiving any favourable response. I use StreetMap http://www.streetmap.co.uk/ or Open Street Map http://www.openstreetmap.org/. The first has metric scales on UK maps. Open Street Map tells you on the website how to calculate the distances in metres based on what scale you are at (1:100000, etc.) but not any actual scale on the map. But at least no imperial anywhere on the site that I could see.
Multimap is seriously flawed considering Ordnance Survey maps have been completely metric for decades.

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