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<p dir="auto">Thanks to <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/tomhughes/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/tomhughes">@tomhughes</a>:  programming is probably out of scope and I am not asking for any.<br>
As opposed to programming my first suggestion (as I understand it) is essentially changing one parameter for the existing map display: the length of the scale bar.<br>
If I want to (roughly) know the distance between New York and Washington I open the map and zoom in to see the distance is "three thumbs". But then the scale bar is too short to convert "three thumbs" into miles...<br>
Most of the times for a quick info this is enough and fiddling with routing, start and end points and the question of car/train/bicycle and the routing engine much too inconvenient...</p>

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