Find my iPhone gives 2 different locations

I lost my iphone 5s in a rural location. Find my iphone shows it in the middle of a field about 5 miles away from where I lost it (it has been static there since I got back home and searched for it). However, when I pressed the car icon for directions, it shows a different location, a footpath about 2 miles away.  Why might that be?  Is it possible that the location is so inaccurate that the phone is really still where I think I dropped it, about 5 miles from the reported location?  Given these are all rural locations, searching is hard (lots of plant ground cover) so having a good idea where best to look further would be very helpful...

Thanks tonefox; a sensible guess, but not correct. There was a road right by the field, so that wasn't the reason.
Here's what actually happened: I found my iphone in a shed at home - some 4 or 5 miles from the nearer (and 6 or7 from the further) of the locations on findmyiphone. So both results were wildly inaccurate.  It was only findmyiphone that convinced me that I must have dropped it on a walk and that it must have been found and moved by someone else. We spent many hours searching the three possible areas (two shown by find my iphone, and then the area where we had actually walked) before we decided a thorough hunt of the garden was a good idea, as I'd been chopping wood there all afternoon.  It was in the woodshed...
Normally findmyiphone correctly locates stuff at my house, even though GPS is intermittent here (we live in a fairly remote and mountainous area) but this time it was wildly out. And I am still baffled as to why it showed two different, very wrong, locations.

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