really cool looking maps, thanks for the tip
right now I'm using online map for measuring distance, and for now I'll probably stick with it because it also allows for sort-of waypoints. But both alt-tabing from game and/or using Steam overlay really breaks immersion (although I admit the map in steam overlay less so). That is why I'd like to have scale and measuring tool in the game map.
Hopefully showing the scale somewhere in the corner of map shouldn't be too big of a problem to implement (and having any sort of map without scale is just really wrong), just something that would allow us to roughly eyeball short distances.
As for the measuring tool, while I hope that devs would later add a few more tools for navigation and course planning, the simple measuring tool would give player enough information for longer distances cases where guesstimating the distance based on map scale isn't good enough. As I said, nothing advanced, just straight line distance between two points on map.