Mileage/Distance incorrect

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WORK AROUND FOUND
**crediting @alex.hent **
If you ask for distance point to point it will give a “as-the-crow-flies” Distance. AKA flight distance.
You have to be more specific.
If you ask for a commercial route distance it will give you the commercial route miles/km

I have a carrier dispatch service company and I’m constantly looking at mileage from point to point to be able to decide if I want to continue booking that work for my clients. I tried to use Rabbit for this but it gives me the wrong mileage every time.

Example Commack NY to Longmont CO = 1819 miles
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My rabbit tells me its 1667 Miles and its provided by WolframAlpha.
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i tried many other city and states and its wrong 90% of the time.

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I suppose it depends what its using if it’s using WiFi. Or cellular. Mind gives my different location depending on what I am using example. If I ask it the distance from my home to a place it thinks I am at the other end of the country due to where the broadband provider is. As for cellular it’s a little closer within the same county. If I specifically state a place. It’s better. You may want to put this big into the bug report on this site. As for GPS it’s closer within a road.

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As far as I know, not much has been done yet regarding navigation or things related to routes and distances, so I suspect that this topic will be addressed in more detail by the developers at a later date. Just be patient.

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I have both wifi and celluar. I tried both methods and same results. When booking cargo we are only given the city and state so i can only check city/state to city/state. With the mileage and price i can get the most accurate Rate Per Mile to make a quick decision. Im sure the r1 will be more accurate in the future. I figured i report any issues i encounter to help speed up progress.

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wonder if the extra mileage comes from driving (I-80) vs flight (actual distance etc…)

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I asked R1 to give a commercial route and local route from Commack NY to Longmont CO and still get 1667. No matter how I ask R1 I get the same answer. You also cant take a flight from Commack itself to Longmont itself so giving flight distance would not be a useful.

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This is most likely because it’s not doing any actual calculations, the LLM is just hallucinating. See if you can ask Wolfram Alpha about the mileage

(edit, just saw the part where wolfram alpha was mentioned at the end of the response)

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Only thing i can imagine here is that R1 probably calculates direct distance from a to b but not using the roads? will do a test for you and will update on this !

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And yes i was right! Here is the proof:

R1 or Wolfram it taking direct line distance from A to B , try ask it do give you the traffic distance.

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hope this last prompt can help you get your distance more accurate :slight_smile:

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Thanks I did some testing to after reading this. If you ask for a commercial route then it gives accurate info.

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This is awesome. @SirJunior I’ve changed your topic to a “Bug/Issue” and marked @alex.hent’s comment as the answer so others can find it easily if they run into this issue :smile:

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