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February, 2012

Designing a Global Map

The challenges and surprises in designing Google Maps.
This whole Core77 article about the design of Google Maps is pretty excellent. It's a great breakdown of the insane challenges of building a map of the world. Beyond everything else, though, I found this especially shocking: "In recent months we have introduced a few more regional changes to our color palette adding 3D building shadows to indicate local time-of-day." 3D building shadows ... Who knew? (I can't seem to track it down myself, but it's in the screenshots on the article.)
February 27, 2012
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