Excellent point. And this calibrating is a key point as you lose weight--once you drop a significant amount you've got to revise your calorie intake down a commensurate amount.
Estimation is good enough as long as you monitor your progress and tweak it if it's not getting you results.
Seems like it is the developer's location, with the following note from the bottom of the link:
"(However, there's still the caveat that if any app triggers “Snap to Road”, all apps get “Snap to Road”.)"
which seems to be a poor implementation decision vs providing apps snapped or unsnapped location data based on their setting, but may be the result of some early-on ill-considered internal designs?
Likewise, and Steve is just rolling in his grave. Apple used to be so meticulous about UI. Directly unrelated to the road snapping, but a shining example of this inconsistency: I open up the App Store, and tap on the 'hamburger' to get ... "Wish list"???!!
I have a theory that big, product driven companies benefit from having somebody up top who just keeps saying "No, it's not good enough, find a way to make it better."