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Looks like it prioritized historical locations over nearby locations. The little clock icon usually represents a prior location that was selected.

Could be an interesting design approach to know which locations are "fungible". I.e., one Wawa is as good as another, but your parent's house isn't a replacement for mine [1].

[1] I'm sure your parents are very nice, of course :)

And ironically the OP was complaining that it didn't return him to the same WaWa:

> Last time I asked for directions to a Wawa, it was to the one on Oak Lane, 5.9 miles away. Why doesn't it guess that I might be trying to go back to the same place?

I have it happen to me over and over again when Waze has my GPS coordinates. Its uncertainty is on the level of where I am in my house, and not which town I'm in.

By adding a distance measurement they've solidified a best-guess, though.

Yeah, often the guess you have is something you have no confidence in.

Also, I am just speculating as someone who has had similar problems... I did not contribute to this app.

Another common case is the history of your behavior is fully remote and your instantaneous connectivity is out-of-sync. So the map falls back to this kind of primitive state more similar to TomTom rather than being intuitive and catered.