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> The most annoying one, is that the app always defaults to the closest location "as the bird flies." So many apps do this and it's really annoying. There are
by wkjagt 4y ago
> The most annoying one, is that the app always defaults to the closest location "as the bird flies."
So many apps do this and it's really annoying. There are quite a lot of commercial activity on the other side of the river from where I live, and every store's site I visit, or app I use, always recommends a couple of locations that are closest "as the bird flies", but require me to take a ferry, or drive an hour and a half, whereas the store that's actually the quickest to get to for me is just 15 minutes away from me in the next town over on my side of the river.
It's understandable though, because it's so much easier to calculate straight line distance, and I guess in most cases it gives the right, or close to the right answer. I've just accepted that I live in an edge case area for how the majority of commerces calculates these things.