Why Ft and not Yards

Southy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Posts: 10

Bought the 520 at the weekend and overall i am very impressed with this. I had been using Via Michelin on a PDA before some kind little soul removed it from my car.

I have be use to instructions giving the distance in yards and not feet. The Navman gives me distances under 0.25 miles as feet. I have never in my life considered distances in feet. I always think of them in yards, miles.

Is there a settign i can change or is it something i have to live with.

Confused

Tim Buxton · Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:30 pm Post subject:

It's something you'll have to live with unless you're prepared to go metric and use metres (for everything). heard it was the 'American way' as the excuse for using feet over yards but I can't remember a single instance of them having a 300' dash/sprint, etc..

I've lobbied Navman time and time again to get yards. They could even use the same markers as they do for metres; we'd never know....
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Southy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 13, 2005 Posts: 10

Thanks

Lets hope they change it eventally.

icarus · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 26, 2005 Posts: 12

I could not agree more.
By the time the voice has chuntered through "In thirteen hundred and fifty feet - turn left" it is already down to 1000 ft and by the time I have converted that to just over 300 yards and that, in turn to 3 football pitches - I have gone past the b***dy turning.

I had always assumed that Navman being a NZ company and therefore metric they really didn't understand imperial measures.

ATB

Gee-Pee · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Why feet not yards?

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