Is there an English expression for distance on a map measured point to point?

Like for example London is 60 miles from southampton? Which is true if you were flying, but on a car it's more like 70.

Am I clear?

As the crow flies.

"As the Frenchman retreats"

As the crow flies

Stoner, ta geule! 😆

Ferme-la! 😉

On the rhumb line.

You really are a plonker stoner don't you, or is it just to annoy me? If you have something against me can you just resort to personal insult?

CFH and jam bo thanks for your replies.

De rien, mon vieux!

You really are a plonker stoner don't you

good use of advanced Delism there, Rodney.

"as the wolf runs" is the term for distance by road,
"as the crow flies" is distance in a straight line.

Nico are you sure about yourself?
Both the cambridge and the urban dictionary fail to give me a definition of the word rhumb

never trust anything that came out of Cambridge…

http://www.answers.com/topic/rhumb-line

You and I both learn something everyday eh? You manage to untwist your knickers yet?

Juan, the rhumb line actually refers to distance on a nautical chart, though it could just as easily refer to land. "As the crow flies" is the idiom you seek. Stoner is just doing what Brits feel the need to do. It's a reflex action and doesn't involve the brain. Presumably there is a French equivalent to the crow?

p.s. the rhum line is not the same as a great circle so technically probably isn't the same as "as the crow flies". There is no end to the complexities once the genie is out of the bottle.

its 'praising'

sorry, IGMC.

"Prasing"?

Qu'est-ce que c'est ca? 8)

Le corbeau. L'expression équivalente est "la distance à vol d'oissau".

what educateur said almost 😉
A vol d'oiseau. Thanks for the precisions nico
On this happy ending, I shall go and watch merlin season two

edit – arse, i cant read