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Q: Apple Ical Calendar picking up random "Office" start location for calculating travel times

Hi everybody, I have been using with great satisfaction the "travel time" feature in Calendar for several months. It's really a good feature, apart from the impossibility to change the start location with other than "Home" or "Office". But most of the times it works and it was working well also the feature to pick the previous appointment address to calculate the time to leave to next appointment.

But, suddenly, some weeks ago the feature started to do a very strange thing that I did not find commented in any other discussion here.

 

IT TAKES A RANDOM "START" ADDRESS! The first time I was disappointed and I was wondering if my address in my "Contacts" file was changed for any reason, so I checked but it was ok.

 

What happens? I set an appointment, set the address, click on "calculate travel time" and it returns a "strange" time from "Office" (kind of 30 minutes by car instead of the REAL 50 minutes that I know from experience). Then I click on the map window, it opens and it shows every time a different Office "start" location that is absolutely random: not listed in my Contact file, not in my previous appointments, not linked to any other address in my contact book, not linked to anybody I know.

 

And every time is different! If I set as "target" location the place X, it uses as "start" an "Office" address that is somewhere nearby the target location of the appointment.

 

Example: if I set "Via Galileo Galilei - Venice" as location of the appointment, it returns 4 minutes and the start is located nearby Via Galilei.

If I set "Pescara - Stazione Centrale", it takes "Via Francesco Filomusi Guelfi 21, 65126 Pescara, Italy", an address I have nothing to do with.

 

But now I realised it's even more strange: the "travel time" initially shown in Calendar for the Pescara route is correct (5 hours 36 minutes), while if I click on the map, it switches to 12 minutes and the start location is the one mentioned above (Via Filomusi).

 

Isn't all this crazy?

MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), Router Alice ADSL2 + WiFi + N

Posted on Jan 8, 2016 4:00 AM

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    luca24532 luca24532 Jan 8, 2016 4:06 AM in response to luca24532
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    Jan 8, 2016 4:06 AM in response to luca24532

    Schermata 2016-01-08 alle 13.02.46.png

    This is a screenshot with both the Calendar appointment (with 5 hours 36 minutes of travel time to Pescara Centrale) and the Maps window, opened by clicking the small map in the appointment window, that shows 12 minutes travel time to the same address, with "Ufficio" ("Office") start located in Via Francesco Filomusi, nearby the target address.

    I checked many times my Contact file in Contacts and the Home and Office addresses are correctly set. I also disactivated all other internet accounts apart the my personal iCloud account to avoid any kind of confusion or overlapping of information.