Noob how to change settings from Imperial to Metric

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Hello, I’ve just moved away from G products in light of recent events and the new OpenStreetMaps appears to be the best FOSS for the Raspberry Pi5 desktop.
Unfortunately, the directions are showing distances in some archaic Imperical system that has no meaning to me, so I’m searching for the settings which include the universal, the best, the one and only (almost except for Burma, Liberia and America)…Metric system!

I installed Maps The GNOME Project 47.4 → select the hamburger menu → see no settings, so I select Set up OpenStreetMap Account… → I already have an account set up.

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I did a bit of searching as I use gnome-maps and see metric distances.

The setting is based on your locale and for the US you will get miles.

Maybe set your locale to en-ca or en-gb?

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I cannot see how to update this. FWIW I’m in Switzerland, which uses Metric and I need the English settings.

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@trigpoint has already given you the pointer for at least a workaround. I would just note that gnome maps uses OpenStreetMap (no s) data, but is outside of that completely independent of OSM. With other words pointing out the issue (and it is clearly a bug) here won’t do very much, you should open an issue with gnome.

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The locale is in your OS settings,
not gnome-maps.

En-ca will probably work best for you, pick a city in the same timezone.

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Thanks for the replies.
I just login to the online website which provides metric.
I deleted the OpenStreetMaps desktop program.