41Latitude - Google Maps & Its City Labels
Ideas about maps, technology, & usability. by Justin O'Beirne Google Maps & Its City Labels A few months ago, I was contacted by someone familiar with how Google Maps is made. The person had taken issue with my post “Where’s New York City?” and had sought to defend Google Maps’s “city labeling process”. According to the person, Google uses a series of “sophisticated labeling algorithms” that give
Google Maps & Label Readability | Part 3
Justin O’Beirne of San Francisco, California. Essays, book, and contact information. GOOGLE MAPS & LABEL READABILITY, PART 3 Connecting the Dots Regarding Google Maps’s Superior Label ReadabilityBack in December, I wrote: I’ve been trying to figure out why Google Maps’s city labels are more readable than the labels on other mapping sites.Google’s labels seem to “pop” more than the other sites’ lab
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Google Maps & Label Readability Why are Google Maps’s city labels more readable than those of other maps? 2010 “Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design... fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.” — EDWARD TUFTE I’ve been trying to figure out why Google Maps’s city labels seem much more readable than those of other mapping sites. For in
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