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bschnelast Thursday at 2:04 PM1 replyview on HN

information density of online maps is, in general, quite low compared to old paper maps: https://x.com/patrickc/status/1738646361128792402

I guess there's various reasons, ranging from "it's hard to make auto-layout algos produce stuff as dense as painstakingly handcrafted maps" to "let's make it harder to scrape/copy data"


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tokailast Thursday at 2:18 PM

Back then it was dedicated map makers that created maps. Now it's mainly programmers. So its not surprising that quality tanks when you go from disciplinary expert staff to IT day laborers.