What are the advantages of drawing a map to scale?

The advantages of drawing a map to scale are:

1. A scaled map accurately represents the relative sizes and distances of geographic features, ensuring that they are portrayed in proportion to each other as they exist in reality.
2. When a map is drawn to scale, it allows for precise measurements of distances, areas, and angles which is useful for military purposes, town planners, surveyors, engineers, geographers, geologists, etc.
3. Scale is useful to depict the geographical features e.g., large scale map depicts the geographical features of small area in detail. Small scale maps show only the important features of a large area.