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Daily Dish

Rethinking Maps

The Daily Dish
October 13, 2010

A Texas firm has an innovative approach:

The maps use typography as the sole visual clue. So everything from streets and highways to parks and waterways are labeled with text. The bigger the thoroughfare or the landmark, the bigger the words.

A map of Chicago using that process can be found here.

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