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Yes, it always depicts you traveling in the shortest path between the two points, even if it doesn't make sense. Just imagine that the path goes around the water.
Yeah, unfortunately it always assumes straight lines. The length of the road will nonetheless be long, though, so you'll just follow this straight line very slowly ...