The navigation in Waze uses miles and feet instead of miles and yards. This is different from all the road signs and how people refer to these types of distances. I don’t know if this is popular in other countries, but it is wrong for the UK.
Can this be corrected?
I’m sure it can. It’s simply a matter of some basic maths for conversion and some new text strings for the app. The text-to-speech engine should handle it without problems.
All we have to do is ask Waze HQ . . . . oh, wait. We’ve been asking them about this for years, without success. 
Sorry, but I suspect this is a low priority issue for Waze that we’re never going to get sorted.
IIRC it’s only us and the USA that use non-metric distances on road signs, and their signage does use feet rather than yards when denoting short distances… I therefore suspect that, given the current implementation meets the expectations for the majority of non-metric Wazers, providing country-specific variants of the implementation to meet the expectations both of US and UK users is so far down the priority list as to be invisible to the naked eye.
Thanks for the replies, I didn’t realise this had been requested for so long. It does seem that tiny coding changes like this are very insignificant in comparison to all the work which goes on to provide a correct map, but realise it’s a different group of people.
I do find that people from the USA tend to think that their way of doing things is the only way, even if they are in the minority (like using Imperial measures). Having said that, the app does appear to have been well localised, with hardly an Americanism anywhere.
Maybe we might be better to just wait until the UK finishes going metric, which I’m sure we will do eventually. After all, we’ve only been doing it for about 50 years so far.
I believe that in general, most people believe that they are right, even if they are in the minority.
I believe that is in human nature - it would be hard to survive if we felt as though everything that we know is wrong.
While I cannot recall explicitly any sign that I have come across that uses feet for short distances (though I am sure they exist, I will just try to be more aware), I personally would be surprised if even if people in the U.S. voted to make this change that it would be changed.
There must be some reason why the app used feet for short distances. I can’t imagine anyone English deciding to do this, and no-one else in the world uses Imperial measures, so presumably it must have been someone from the USA.
Not sure about the ‘people believe they are right’ statement. I’m painfully aware how unusual we in this country are in still using Imperial measures, and it’s frankly embarrassing to still be using such silly measures in 2016. I’m sure we will eventually join the system which the rest of the world uses, we just seem to be taking ages about it.
My experience of the ‘people believe they are right’ statement is that it seems to be true. I won’t mention names but I lived for 17 years outside of the UK in another European country and the predominant feeling was clearly that everything they did was the only right way of thinking about it. I only noticed because I wasn’t from there. Ich war von woanders. 
But back to the topic, my brain seems to adapt to whatever units are presented. I too prefer the whole decimal thing and for many years after my return to the UK I continued to have eveything set to km. But I’ve finally succumbed and work in miles again. The only place where Waze and feet enter into my consciousness is the distance where I start indicating, which I now find is, all other things being normal, 300 feet. 
Regards,
Chris
Instructions really need to match the signage:
Iain is probably right, but it’s such a shame as ‘little’ things like this are common reasons cited as to why people don’t use Waze in the UK - which to me means it should be a ‘big’ thing for Waze and higher up the priority list. :evil: