Ebook Maps

[ravells]

Just had look at Toffs maps on my kindle. His is definitely the clearer although it looks like it's just font size which is the main issue.

[töff]

Just had look at Toffs maps on my kindle. His is definitely the clearer although it looks like it's just font size which is the main issue.

"Main" issue, yes, I'll agree, but I'll extend the comment thus: a map symbol is in essence the same thing as a word -- an optical mark meant to be "read." Map symbols that get too small to be read are as much of a problem as words too small to be read. On the sample map above, it was largely a matter of font size. But that's just for that map. It's usually not as simple a matter as just making the font size larger. One of the tricks that comes in handy, if you can use it -- and I did, on that sample map -- is to abandon scale* and redistribute features to fit better across the available space, so packing more stuff onto the map, or at least not having to delete anything because there's no room.

Opinion: are the elevation marks too light on Kindle or Nook? They look great on an LED screen but on an e-ink screen the gamma seems to be different and the slopes & hills are kinda faded out, to my eye.

* (In my defense, there was almost no scale data in the book itself, and the original map was not to scale either.)