The most honest map I have seen was hand drawn on a napkin
It had four things on it: a road, a river, a tree, and the word HERE. It got me where I was going faster than the app did, because it threw away everything that was not a decision point.
Most maps fail by including too much. A good map is a list of moments where you could go wrong, and nothing else. I think that is true of instructions, recipes, and most explanations too.
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My grandmother gave directions entirely in landmarks that no longer exist. "Left where the bakery was." Somehow it still worked, which says something about how much of navigation is memory.