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Also: Don't guess my units.

Why oh why does Google Maps think that "miles", "feet", and "yards" are words that have any meaning at all?

Only like a 20th of the world even knows what these obscure things are. Just because I'm currently located in a country that nominally uses these arcane units doesn't mean that I know what they are.

Oh you can change it to real units temporarily. But if you look away for a split second it changes it right back.

I'm LOGGED IN. How could you not remember?!



Related to this: don't even offer arcane units or M/D/Y dates in languages other than English, no other language in the world uses them.




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