If you measure the distance between point A and point B as the crow flies, an idiom for the shortest distance between two points on a map, you disregard the vagaries of intervening terrain – the geodesic distance.
You could be tempted or even mistaken to believe that this gets you to your destination more quickly and indeed more successfully.
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