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Why did Bryson consider his Appalachian Trail map useless?

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The lack of detail and scaling makes the Appalachian trail map useless. An evidence coming from the story is it has a scale of 1:100,000 which compresses the places, the routes, trails of the real world into a mere centimeter in the map.
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