Ovi maps shows wrong mileage

I have been using Ovi maps for 18months & find it frustrating in that it seems to show a mileage as the straight line route.
I have just done a trip of 140 miles, Ovi maps shows it as 97milers, Google maps shoes it as 140.
How can I get it to show the road mileage.

I think that maybe DIYISFUN is talking about the distance from the current location to a POI. For instance, if I do a search for nearby restaurants, Ovi Maps shows the geographyical distance (the distance as a straight line) of each restaurant and not the route distance. The real route distance is only showed after the route is calculated.
If that is DIYISFUN complain, almost every navigation systems behave in the same way Nokia Maps do, I mean, they allways show the geographycal distance to POIs and only show the route distance after a route is calculated.
Regards.

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