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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yora" data-source="post: 5950501" data-attributes="member: 6670763">"Why don't we have both?"I think this is a case where you can really make use of digitial technology in a useful way.Inside the printed books, you have limited amount of space on a page and the damand to give the right impression of the world. Since there is only so much information you can get on a given space, would not force it and instead go for "artistic optimation". At the same time, you can have digital maps with variable scale through the use of zoom, which you can combine with different amounts of information at different scales. Since delivering the right artistic impression with the print map, it can also be much more utilitarian, without things that look great but impede the readability of the information.Either make it a 6000x4000 pixel map or even make a whole digital atlas programm with all kinds of gadgets to enable or disable what kind of information should be displayed.I love maps and I like statistics, and the most common candidate for the "greatest graph ever made" is also a map. Adding overlays with climate zones, population density, vegetation types, natural resources, and anything else you can imagine would be really terrific. ^^And maybe even add animations Indiana Jones travel transition shot style, which follow historic events from the setting.</blockquote>