Why do distances appear to be measured in miles ( from Kelowna, BC ) but labelled in km?

Asked by GuruNDMCS Oct 10, 2019 at 02:02 PM

Question type: General

Google says Red Deer AB is 741 km from Kelowna, but the Car Guru listing says 476km.

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Responding to the "Who cares? " answer from F_O_R , A software developer that thinks that if a system can't get the easy stuff right, it may not get the hard stuff right.

Distances are measured in different ways but you should know that. If you are hung up on such minutiae you should shop locally.

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are you using the canadian site? ca.cargurus.com or the US site, CarGurus.com

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I'm on the ca.cargurus.com site. I suspect it's a minor programming error, perhaps getting the distance in miles ( via Google Maps, perhaps ) but not converting to km, though giving it a km label because it's the canadian site.

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