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[Feature Request]: Configurable wind speed units
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pulling out of #2944
Different countries use different conventions for windspeed. Knots, kmh, m/s, and the freedom units. This should be available to change.
- [ ] also look at putting all units settings in the same settings location
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This is broken out to #3028
Government of Canada weather app.
I believe hPa was chosen as it doesn't require the addition of a decimal point for every reading but still conveys the same data as kPa.
Originally posted by @b8b8 in #2944
hPa was likely used as it uses same values as the old millibars. I have to admit never seeing kPa in a weather forecast! But in the end that's still the same unit, just with a different prefix.
Here's a typical Finnish forecast using m/s
BBC seems to default to mph (of all things!)
However, the wind speed issue isn't really what I'm talking about here, but instead the usage of the wrong metric prefixes for large values. Maybe we should have a separate ticket for making wind units configurable? Here's the relevant settings in the Orca CoPilot marine navigation app
Originally posted by @bergie in #2944