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I'd like to use kilometres instead of miles in Google Maps, but I live in the UK, so it's Not Allowed. Why? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the web you can for directions at least, select the "Options" button next to the "Leave Now" time selection, it has a distance units to switch between Automatic / Miles / km. To switch the little scale in the bottom right, just click it.

On the iOS app it's "User"->Settings->Distance Units (I assume Android is similar).

(And if you want to adjust Apple Maps in metric, it is a bit more cryptic, it follows the general system settings app, in General->Language & Region->Measurement System, with a choice of Metric / US / UK).

Well, slap my ass 10 times and call me Charles Maurice. When was that introduced?

Charles, it's been there for a decade or more.

I find it so frustrating when software and web pages don’t default to using the locale info I’ve set in my system settings. Add an app-specific option if you must, but I’d love if these things just worked by default.

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