Final Post: The Best of 41Latitude
41Latitude was taken offline in 2011. Fortunately, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has preserved much of the original site. (Browse it here.)
Top Posts
For those interested in the best of 41Latitude, these were the top posts:
1 | Google Maps & Label Readability
Google Maps & Label Readability examines a number of techniques Google used to make its maps easier to read. It quickly became 41Latitude’s most popular post, receiving over 250,000 unique page views in December 2010 alone.
2 | Streets & the Smallest Effective Difference
Inspired by one of Tufte’s design principles, this was my final 41Latitude post and also my favorite. It in turn inspired the awesome “High Road” project by Michal Migurski, Nathaniel Kelso, and Geraldine Sarmiento.
3 | Styled Maps Using Google Maps API 3
This was 41Latitude’s second most popular post, demonstrating the variety of styles that could be created with Google’s new map styling API. The original JSON snippets are still available here.
Looking for something else? All of the other 41Latitude posts are available in the Archive. (There’s also a list of the most popular 41Latitude posts available here.)
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