Map directions from Calendar are from Home, PA!
I've started adding locations to my Calendar events which is great because it gives you time to drive and the ability to set alarms to a certain time before you have to leave. The problem I'm having, though, is when I click on the map to see the directions on my Mac before I leave, it shows me the directions from Home, PA (yes, there is a town named Home in Pennsylvania) instead of directions from my home.
To reproduce:
- Enter an event in Calendar and put in a location, letting Calendar fill in the complete location; pick a time you'll be home rather than after another appointment (or Calendar will tell you directions from the earlier appointment location to the latter -- which is a cool feature, but this particular bug is not triggered). A little map will appear showing the location of the event at the bottom of the information box for the event.
- Click on the map icon in the event (note that clicking on the address itself does nothing). On my iPhone, clicking the address (as there is no map), brings up a larger map of the location.
What I expect:
To start up Maps show the location of the event, possibly with directions from my home to the location.
What I get:
Maps starts up but shows directions to the location of the event form Home, PA.
Comments
- I don't know if it makes a difference that I'm doing this in northern Virginia; If I lived in California, i don't know if it would still think it should "home" was in Home, PA.
- If I bring up maps and ask for directions from home to the same location as the event, it does give me directions from my home.
- Only work around is to edit the directions after they come up. The first time this happens, it's a bit disconcerting.
- Maps initially comes up almost like it's going to show the correct directions and then zooms out and shows them from Home, PA.
- Home, PA is not closer to my events than my home as both my home and all the events I've tried are in Virginia in the Washington, DC area.
- Thankfully, the "travel time" is from my home instead of Home, PA or anywhere else.
This is getting more bizarre. I was clicking on a test appointment to reproduce the problem and Maps suddenly started showing just the event location without any directions. I then tried an event from next weekend and then it went from a location in Fredericksburg, VA that seems to be called Home, as if there might be a gas station called Home at that address. I don't have the address or phone number for that location in Contacts. The event is in a location closer to Fredericksburg than to my house, in case that matters.
I suspect this is just a bug but googling didn't bring up anything similar. Anyone else seen this kind of behavior?
MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)