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  1. 02-09-2011, 08:13 AM #1
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    Default Interesting article about a guy looking at dots... or TownSpots.

    This is actually quite an interesting read...

    http://www.41latitude.com/post/31832...el-reability-3

    ... and something to consider for regional maps.
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    great find, thanks!
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    Very interesting read, thanks, RR!
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  4. 02-09-2011, 01:18 PM #4
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    Indeed ... never thought of that
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    Thanks for that link Redrobes. As someone who still struggles with my labels I hope it will help
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    Wow. Learned as much from that article than I have anywhere in a month. So THAT's why I keep going back to Google maps (or one reason). Thanks!
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    Logical, systematic approach to what we, here, have always known. More dots of varying size (combined with larger text and a thicker stroke) conveys much more info than fewer dot-variation and the same stroke across all text. That guy should have come here and asked us long ago.
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    Nice find and once you read it you think you´ve always known it because of it´s logic.
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