MyDrive route planning shows miles, not kilometres

Cbourner

We don't use the imperial system in Australia, yet there seems no way to use kilometres in MyDrive in conjunction with my GO 620.


Can anyone help?

Troggy53

On my Go 6000 it’s in the main Settings under the group “Language and Units”. There is a Units option which can be switched to one or other or Automatic based on GPS location. I use Auto as I go from UK to France so I don’t need to change it over.

Niall

@Cbourner

Change the units in settings within MyDrive as per

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Cbourner wrote:

We don't use the imperial system in Australia, ....

Cbourner

MyDrive for Android looks very different to the image you provided and there is no such option available. If there was I would have already tried that ...

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You never mentioned Android before. Should we guess?

Cbourner

Sorry, I didn't expect that to be such a differentiator.

So, yes, it's Android, and there appears to be no setting to change the units.

Am I missing something or is this just how it is?

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Cbourner wrote:

..., and there appears to be no setting to change the units.

Yes, there is none.
I think the units depend on the phone settings and/or location information.

Cbourner

Unfortunately that does not seem to be the case; my phone is set to Metric units, and the location is Australia, which uses the Metric system almost exclusively, including for travel distances.

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EthoZ wrote:

Cbourner wrote:

..., and there appears to be no setting to change the units.

Yes, there is none.
I think the units depend on the phone settings and/or location information.

Do not select English (United Kingdom) as the default language but a country with metric system.

Cbourner

There is no option to choose the language in the Android version. My phone has all Australian regional and language settings, yet miles is the selected unit.

I should point out that all other applications on my phone are fully aware of where I am and they use the correct units.


Basically this was a bad choice for an Android user in Australia.

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Cbourner wrote:

There is no option to choose the language in the Android version.

It depends on the phone settings !!!
Try some other countries.

Cbourner

Indeed, but as I am in Australia, I don't want to set my phone to the wrong country.

That is not a reasonable requirement.

I think I must conclude that the software is not suitable for Australia.

sfab

My routes in MyDrive are also shown in miles on my Android (Samsung Galaxy A5 A520F), apparently without being influenced by the language setting (tried English-New Zealand, German-Germany, Czech-Czech Republic). Does anyone have an idea?

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@sfab
How often?

https://en.discussions.tomtom.com/mydrive-connect-apps-474/metrics-on-android-mydrive-app-1006599/index1.html#post1230924

sfab

Sorry, do not kill me....
Thank you for your information, that there is no way, how to influence the units used in My Route list....
I did not understand it from the previous discussion.