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Now that Apple is ditching Google as the back end for the iOS Maps app, we're hoping that they'll give topography the Jony Ive treatment. While we applaud the super-hot flyover mode, we wonder if they've gone far enough. As the examples above show, it's worth remembering that map tiles can look like anything.
Digital maps are made up of two elements: the geo-data that records how the world is laid out and the rules used to render that data on your screen.Thanks to projects like OpenStreetMap, designers have begun to look at location-based data in radical ways.
Click through for a tour of this new visual territory.
iOS6 promo image courtesy of Apple.