I have finished the Witcher 1 and am currently on Witcher 2, so maybe this will change in Witcher 3, but something I would like to see is a Witcher world or regional map with scale in kilometers or miles (or other units I can convert to our distance units). I found cool maps in the accessory materials for the first two Witcher titles, but none of them have a scale, so I have no idea, for example, how far it is from Vizima to La Vallette or to Flotsam. Does such a map exist as of yet?

BTW: My internet searches yielded no results for a map with scale either, but perhaps my Google-fu leaves much to be desired.

Nobody has seen such a map?

Well, you can put random measures like "100 km from X to Y" on a map, but technically the whole world is like 10x10km size, and towns are a couple km one from another (look at the nr of steps on the compass...).

10x10 km - really?

I mean: in W1 and W2 it is even harder to tell, because the "regions" are smaller then what you mostly get in W3.

For W3 (and if it is really that much important), one could traverse White Orchard horizontally/vertically using the slow walk, take the time it takes (game time), and then use Geralt's speed to perhaps calculate - roughly - the distance(s).
The compass in W3 really just shows (if you must have this) one of several possible paths to get to your actual target. No in any way precise counting of steps here.

Still, I wonder in what sense all of this could be useful?

Anyway, good luck!

Edit:

For W3: look at the boats you can use. They might have about 6 m in lentth.
And now look at the harbour in Novigrad: how many boats might you need at any point to span the distance from point x to point x?
Multiplied with 6 you probably could get to the numbers you need.

Or, ask support :)!

Well, I am wondering about the scale of the map story-wise rather than its game implementation. Clearly, the game implementation of the map is going to be smaller than the story one - making a game map with distances on a scale of hundreds or thousands of kilometers is not realistic, at least not if the game is to be kept interesting by being filled with content. One could create mostly empty or procedurally generated maps of that size, but it would probably make for a worse game.

However, story-wise the Witcher world has some reasonable distances, hence my desire for a map with scale. :)

I think the best you're going to get, if you can read Polish, is high definition map -- again, if you can read Polish -- from CD Projekt Red, but that's based on the game, and has no scale. I suspect that Sapkowski never developed the world (map) to the degree you are looking for.

Thanks Hickory, I can kind of read/understand Polish. In any case, I guess you are right - the map has probably never been developed with a scale.

Story-wise >>> meaning the books?

If so, maybe this discussion will help you (starting off with something like "... one day's ride:")

>>>> http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=19730 <<<<

The folks at this link are going very much into detail, and so a sentence like maybe "... and then a four days ride from Velen to Novigrad." might help getting to a perhaps even "realistic" scale.

Good luck!

EDIT:

If you take the map (link from Hickory), then use this map in Google Earth (overlay) while zooming in/out to Euope as reference (using the measurement between two points in Google Earth), you might use the coordinate system on the witcher map to get to your scale.
Guess it might be something like 100km * 100km ...