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Web Cartography
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Web Cartography

by Ian Muehlenhaus
December 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
262 pages
8h 5m
English
CRC Press
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116 Web Cartography: Map Design for Interactive and Mobile Devices
large your maps will appear on digital devices, which also has a direct
impact on the sizing of your fonts. This is a real problem with no end in sight.
One nice thing about standard computer displays only showing 72or96 ppi
was that Web developers generally had a good sense of how large things
would look on different devices. Enter the era of mobile devices (i.e., smart-
phones and tablets) with increasing resolutions, and suddenly a font that
appeared large enough on your home computer screen is now being read on
your friend’s 4-cm smartphone screen.
Font size can vary dramatical ...
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ISBN: 9781439876220