The bitmap trace feature is not good for accuracy as you have noticed. This is true of all bitmap tracing utilities.

First of all, you are tracing a very low resolution image. And secondly the trace utility has to look at a cluster of pixels and try to make some determination as to how to best represent them in outline form. Not easy. And not very effecient.

Here is a map that I created from a scan. I used the scanned map as a template and recreated the lines and added back the text, and road symbols. I changed the colors, etc. to suit my design.

Doing the lines is really easy. Just use the Shape Editor Tool to do a series of line segments that follow the shape of the road and then drag the segments into curves. Apply a wide line width and then Convert Line to Shape. Now the road can have a fill and an outline. And you can select several roads and Combine Shapes > Add Shapes to add the intersections.

Gary

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