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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 3489343" data-attributes="member: 177">I rank utilty far above aesthetics in maps.  Pretty is nice, but I'd rather it be plain and useful than have it be nice to look at but hard to use.Those who say that pretty is usually also useful have perhaps not spent much time looking at really old maps, created before accurate survey techniques.  Gorgeous in terms of artwork, but as a map they were so inaccurate as to be nigh useless, in modern the sense we use them today.  I've seen a great many folks try to pretty up a map, and thereby eliminate, obscure, or clutter the information the map needs to convey.  That just doesn't fly with me.</blockquote>