Street maps in particular are works of art, not accurate surveys.

London looks nothing like the A-Z map in reality, the map is tweaked
and distorted to make it more readily legible to the user ; making
room for street names, making relative positions more obvious than a
true scale representation, etc.  This even applies to OS 50k
Landranger, with exaggerated offsets to staggered crossroads, road and
watercourse widths, etc.

cheers, Ross K
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