u/OGBallsack102

I've been using the little measuring tool that measures miles to gauge realism and scale. Now, obviously in real life, most rivers, very few in fact, are miles wide, and even those not for their entire length. But the issue is, when I go to my trusty tape measure, it indicates that a distance of a mile is so small I can barely see it.

I basically see two solutions:

A, abstract the width and just have much wider rivers on the map even if in practice they aren't that wide, we just need to see them.

B, avoid drawing all but the largest rivers and the rest can be saved for detail maps. The mapper in me who has to actually do all this doesn't really like it, but the autistic pedant in me does.

How do you guys handle this?