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Metric units and Celsius

Yardstick starts out in feet, inches and Fahrenheit. Meters, centimeters and Celsius are all there: the choices in Settings → Display switch the map and the map editor, and one setting switches the weather panel.

The short version Open Settings → Display. Under Units, choose Meters instead of Feet. Under Temperature, choose °C instead of °F. The map editor follows Units. Choosing Celsius here does not change the weather panel; use its own Units field below. Changing Weather units does not change the map or map editor.

Meters and centimeters

Open Settings → Display. Under Units, choose Meters. Distances and areas switch to meters and square meters. Choose Feet to switch back.

The row of buttons under the Yardstick map, with the Units button reading Units: m and the Temp button reading Temp: degrees C, both circled.
Settings → Display. Choose Units and Temperature here (the screenshot shows the classic buttons under the map).

The map editor follows it

The map editor has no units switch of its own. It uses whatever the Units choice in Settings → Display is set to. Set that to meters, then open the map editor, or reload it if it was already open.

  • Zone size grows and shrinks by 1 cm

    With a zone selected, the Zone size buttons read − 1 cm and + 1 cm instead of 1 inch.

  • Sizes are shown in meters

    The zone's area is in square meters, and its width and length in meters.

The map editor toolbar with a zone selected. The Zone size group shows minus 1 cm and plus 1 cm buttons and a size of 496 square meters, 30.6 by 37.5 meters.
Zone size in metric. Centimeter steps, and the size in square meters.

Celsius

  • In Display

    Open Settings → Display → Temperature and choose °C. (The screenshot shows the classic Temp button under the map.)

  • In the weather panel

    The weather panel has its own setting. Open Settings, find Weather, and under Units choose Celsius. That gives you °C, km/h and mm. Press Save.

The choices are remembered per browser The Units and Temperature choices are remembered by the browser you choose them in, not by your Yardstick install. If you open Yardstick on a second computer, a phone, or in a different browser, choose them once there too. The Weather setting is saved in Yardstick itself, so it applies everywhere.
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Map editor

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Reading your map

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Weather

Setting up the weather panel.
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