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Around me distances are wrong

Post by curtst
When trying to navigate to a new location, gas station for example, the Around Me box comes up with a list of available places and distances. These distances are always off. For example, if the around me box says the location is 14 miles away, I click navigate to, then all of a sudden it's 24 miles away instead of the 14 it said before.

Also, is there anyway to tell if these locations are in the direction I'm going and not something I already passed?
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Post by OiledAmoeba
curtst wrote:When trying to navigate to a new location, gas station for example, the Around Me box comes up with a list of available places and distances. These distances are always off. For example, if the around me box says the location is 14 miles away, I click navigate to, then all of a sudden it's 24 miles away instead of the 14 it said before.
In the list you see the distance as the crow flies. The real distance to drive is only calculated when you choose one of the places. Otherwise it would overloads the routing servers if hundreds or thousands of users will do this...
curtst wrote:Also, is there anyway to tell if these locations are in the direction I'm going and not something I already passed?
No, not yet, IMHO.
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