>Surely all (or most) of the label placement, typography etc. ideas he uses could be captured in a set of criteria that could improve the state of the art in computer-mapmaking
Yeah. The following quote really annoyed me:
>He used a computer (not a pencil and paper), but absolutely nothing was left to computer-assisted happenstance.
Well, if Buddy spent two years writing the algorithms to dynamically place the names on the on-line maps, how is that placement "happenstance"? Just as much effort went into it as went into the hand-drawn map...
Yeah. The following quote really annoyed me:
>He used a computer (not a pencil and paper), but absolutely nothing was left to computer-assisted happenstance.
Happenstance!