Please make the scale bar metric

[valleyofdawn]

Or at least double metric/English just like the Mapnik slippy map itself.
This would serve the majority editors, which are not from the US.

[bhousel]

The scale bar should be displaying metric units, unless your browser is sending en-US as the locale.

[valleyofdawn]

Changed to en-UK and it's talking metric. Thanks.

[amandasaurus]

My browser is sending en-GB and I get feets instead of metric.

[richlv]

just for the record - used en-GB in my settings, and it worked.
@rory, if you still get imperial units, check your settings in osm, i believe they override whatever the browser sends.

[bhousel]

Yes, iD tries to detect the user's locale from the browser, but this can be overridden by openstreetmap.org settings.. I've found that it is somewhat common for en-GB users to have en-US in their openstreetmap.org settings.

So anyway I just pushed a change so that now clicking on the scale will toggle the units that it uses:

Hope this helps some!

[richlv]

that's really nice - thank you :)

[amandasaurus]

I get metres now. When I click on the scale, nothing happens, but I don't care about that feature anyway.

[bhousel]

@rory This change hasn't been released to openstreetmap.org yet. You can preview early features by using the iD here: https://openstreetmap.us/iD/master