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: Icon idea for the air line distance between two places? The user is allowed to enter an address. After that he is (next to other information) shown the direct airline distance to that place.

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The user is allowed to enter an address.
After that he is (next to other information) shown the direct airline distance to that place.

I just can't come up with an icon that fulfills following:


this is not a routing distance
this is the direct flying connection
this has nothing to do with airplanes
takes up very small space


Any ideas would be appreciated.

EDIT:
I'm sorry if this came off wrong. I really expected there to already be an icon for this, but I can't find one. Also I don't want to have anybody do my work for me. I'm just stuck, because I can't come up with something clever for this disambiguation.

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@Megan533

With apologies for my rough sketches and webcam photo of said sketches:



Three of these are illustrating the same idea: Pins, markers, or dots representing points A and B, and something to connect them like a dotted line or an arrow.

If your audience is using the Latin alphabet and if "traveling from point A to point B" is a phrase used outside of English, you could do something with the letters.

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@Michele215

I associate the saying (UK) 'As the crow flies' to indicate a straight line distance between A and B. Maybe incorporate a crow in the icon??

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@Connie430

I know you said that the icon does not have to utilize an airplane, but if we are talking about airline miles, I was thinking it might work anyway. I found a few images that might spark the creativity genius in your quest for an icon composition. Maybe try checking these out:

Shows a map and ruler:



Shows a map and GPS pin:



Hope some of those might help you out. Good luck!

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