<p>Let's take a look at an average trace,<br>
<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Sammyhawkrad/traces/2606342" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Sammyhawkrad/traces/2606342</a></p>
<p>We can see a lot of work has gone into the display.<br>
It is even animated.<br>
However, without a simple, even just ASCII</p>
<pre><code>0              10 km
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<p>(adds only 53 characters to the 10.36KB page, 1/200th)<br>
scale bar below it, all scale is lost.<br>
One cannot tell if it is around the block,<br>
or around the nation (without needing an additional click on the Map link.<br>
Which brings up the point: you are showing people a map, without a scale bar...<br>
but it is Cartography 101 that a map has a scale bar. OK, there is also no North arrow,<br>
but at least North is always up.)</p>

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