Scouting

Could we please have the ability to scout occupied territory?  It seems quite unnatural that a party camped out in the open can remain so mysterious.

This might also suggest that it should be possible to put scouts in an army as countermeasure.  While that's probably a more elaborate feature to implement, the former is more important and could be added by itself without introducing noteworthy issues.

Another nice long-term goal would be the ability to scout any location, and receive a report of occupying troops and the composition of nearby parties in transit (i.e. on this tile or adjacent ones, since parties on the move can't really try to hide at all).

I don't think that description intends what we're discussing.  I think it's an obtuse way of saying that when you use Master Scouts against a city, you see information about the current activities of units that are stationed there but currently out on missions.

I did send some at a location just to check it out myself, though in truth I didn't expect it to work, else the world map wouldn't have excluded links to send out scouts to non-city locations.

Yep.