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This appears to be a UK based site so why on earth are the distance units in Kilometres?
by VBprogrammer 14y ago
This appears to be a UK based site so why on earth are the distance units in Kilometres?
- dazbradbury 14y agoI get this a lot - I guess it was one of my americanisms coming through when writing the front end (I lived in the states for a few years), as well as a preference for working in KM. Essentially, it's on the TODO list to be updated.
- wtvanhest 14y agoWe don't use KMs in the US either.
- justincormack 14y agoBecause we are metric in the Uk. What's more odd is distances from London for things in London. Presumably from some bogus centre.
- kirchhoff 14y agoNot in all cases. Distances of such length are almost always measured in miles here.
- buro9 14y agoOnly because of road signage and a failure to complete the move to metric. I tend to use both miles and KM. Miles in the car, KM on the bicycle. I understand and can visualise what a KM is better than what a mile is though.
- VBprogrammer 14y agoDistances and speeds on our road system are always measured in miles. As such most British people generally have a much stronger intuition of Miles than they do Kilometres (except strangely runners who quite often use Kilometres).
- justincormack 14y agoMaybe it depends if you have a car. Runners, cyclists, people who go by train, people who travel to Europe, technical people all use km. I wouldn't have ever thought of using miles on a website...
- MattBearman 14y ago(Unfortunately) that's not true. All road distances are Miles here in the UK. By this I mean road signs, maps, vehicle speedometers and trips, etc. I wish we did use Km - I just spent a couple of months riding my motorcycle around Europe, and metric everything just felt so much more intuitive.