Comment on Inconsistent distances on Google Maps
dhork@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Your answer might be all those blue squiggly bits in the first picture on the left. That part of Scotland seems to have a lot of hills. I bet the 18.7 miles doesn’t take elevation into account at all, while the 21.1 miles does
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, sorry, I maybe should have been clearer with that :-)
dhork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe I would take a closer look as to where, exactly, Google puts the pin when you tell it to go to a town. If I tell Google Maps I want to walk to the village I am currently living in, it puts the pin in a random spot sort of in the middle of the village. (It happens to be in a parking lot by a bakery, so now I am hungry).
So, you may be measuring it with regard to when you reach the town limits on that road, but Google may be putting the pin in some oddball place, off the road you are biking down.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Possibly yeah. Although these are villages you’d drive through in about 5 seconds, so no matter where the pin is put it’s not going to be 2 miles different. Maybe it’s starting in a different place though, that might do it. Cheers, will check that out.