Miles or km in Maps

It's tied to Settings > General > International > Region Format. If that's set to the UK, for example, Maps uses the metric units (km), if set to the US, Maps uses 'English' units (miles). I know, that comes off like a bad pun (the UK not using English units) but that's the way it is...

If you can live with the week starting on a Sunday in the calendar month view, and with the US date and phone number formats, you can leave it set to the US.

You can submit feedback to Apple: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

(You are probably already aware of the feedback system, but just in case.)

Apple clearly think that because we in Great Britain are near Europe we use exclusively European units and this is not the case. It is illegal in Great Britain to express distances in kilometres on public signs which are required by statute to be in Imperial units, viz, yards and miles. We all think and talk in Miles. This is an error founded on ignorance which should be corrected by the simple expedient of giving an option of expressing distances in Miles or kilometres. Can we check these things another time?

Chazblat wrote:
It is illegal in Great Britain to express distances in kilometres on public signs which are required by statute to be in Imperial units..

Yet, Apple Law supersedes all others. 😉