[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Scale bar in bottom corner too small to be useful (Issue #5114)

[Andy Allan]

> How does the existing scale bar help with mapping?

It can help in sparsely mapped areas, or at high latitudes, to figure out whether features (like forests or coastlines) have been mapped to a reasonable accuracy. For example, if the coastline has corners around 1km apart, that suggests more detail could be added.

But in general it's not super important, which is why having a small scale bar in the corner is proportionate. It's there to indicate roughly what scale of map you are looking at, for when you have no further context. It's not supposed to be a measuring tool.

As above, we need some reasonable mapping use-case (and we mean, a use-case for OpenStreetMap volunteer mappers) to consider adding more functionality.

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