# Ideas for improvement of Overview near and far distance display **URL:** \ **Category:** Player Features & Ideas\ **Created:** [January 18, 2021, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ideas-for-improvement-of-overview-near-and-far-distance-display/290716 "2021-01-18T10:03:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Geo\_Eclipse\_Oksaras](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/geo_eclipse_oksaras/32/500781_2.png) [@Geo\_Eclipse\_Oksaras](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Geo_Eclipse_Oksaras)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ideas-for-improvement-of-overview-near-and-far-distance-display/290716/81 "2021-01-27T03:49:39Z")
my car has an option i can switch from (on the digital screen) MPH, or km/h. While it keeps MPH capitalized, anywhere on the LED indicating its km/h or on the digital readout for speed, km’s to empty, average km etc. it is all put out as km/h. 2012 Chevy Equinox LTZ for reference 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ridley\_Rohan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ridley_rohan/32/403694_2.png) [@Ridley\_Rohan](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ridley_Rohan)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ideas-for-improvement-of-overview-near-and-far-distance-display/290716/82 "2021-01-27T04:01:55Z")
Quite often the odometer is not even marked with the units they use. Sometimes they have km and sometimes “miles”. And also a big problem with the car example is that this is not about speed, which is measured in meters per second (m/s) in EVE, but rather about distance readouts that cars don’t have any instruments for at all, save maybe some with cameras and such for reversing. Hell, I don’t even know what a fighter jet readout would look like, but we can be pretty sure its not quite like an EVE overview. And its a good reason I find this “standardized” discussion a bit annoying. We have about the most non-standard item in the universe, one game’s proximity readout window, and demands it follow a standard created by people who only read on paper, stone, wood and chalkboards. ---
**Author:** ![Daichi\_Yamato](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/daichi_yamato/32/252995_2.png) [@Daichi\_Yamato](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Daichi_Yamato)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ideas-for-improvement-of-overview-near-and-far-distance-display/290716/83 "2021-01-27T11:15:51Z")
> [@Ridley\_Rohan](#): > > And also a big problem with the car example is that this is not about speed, which is measured in meters per second (m/s) in EVE, but rather about distance readouts that cars don’t have any instruments for at all, save maybe some with cameras and such for reversing. Just an FYI the first person to bring up speedometers was yourself… ---
**Author:** ![Ridley\_Rohan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/ridley_rohan/32/403694_2.png) [@Ridley\_Rohan](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Ridley_Rohan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ideas-for-improvement-of-overview-near-and-far-distance-display/290716/84 "2021-01-31T10:23:14Z")
> [@Daichi\_Yamato](#): > > Just an FYI the first person to bring up speedometers was yourself… Just an FYI? I don’t think so. That seems much more like an attempt to rekindle bickering. I do have an apt reply to that, but I am not going to bother, because I don’t want any more pointless bickering thank you very much. Just post better and with a positive purpose will you? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2021, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/ideas-for-improvement-of-overview-near-and-far-distance-display/290716/85 "2021-05-01T10:23:40Z")
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