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A New Map of the Internet
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Zonk
on Fri Oct 05, 2007 10:11 PM
from the can-see-my-work-from-here dept.
from the can-see-my-work-from-here dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Chris Harrison project has created a series of maps that show the geographical structure and distribution of the Internet. At the site you can view a global, geo-spatial map of the global internet. The visualizations were put together using data from the Dimes project. One visualization shows the density of Internet connections worldwide while the other displays how international cities are connected. Detailed Maps of Europe and North America are included as well. It's amazing how skewed the distribution is — beyond Australia, New Zealand, and parts of South-East Asia, the southern hemisphere has only a peppering of connectivity."
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Shocking (Score:5, Funny)
Map of Tubes (Score:5, Funny)
Hello, Ted Stevens here.
I find this map of tubes very intriguing. As you may know, I have been a proponent of protecting the Internet's tubes from clogging up. I think this new geo-spatial map will show how the tubes are distributed. It shows that I was right all along! The Internet is like a truck! You can't just throw stuff on it or it slows it down. As a matter of fact, my secretary is sending an Internet right now and NO CARRIER
Very Truly Yours,
Ted Stevens
U.S. Senator
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Write in the man! George W. Bush in 2008.
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map visual appeal (Score:4, Interesting)
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*Paging plumber to tube 23562 by 43566 by 23466*
North-South Divide, nothing new. (Score:2)
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Well, beyond those and Antarctica (Imagine... a whole continent without a Walmart!), much of the southern hemisphere is still under water.
Re:North-South Divide, nothing new. (Score:4, Funny)
*glug glug glug...*
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Why such a map doesn't mean much (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:Why such a map doesn't mean much (Score:5, Interesting)
This is assuming you try to ID the location from a single place. If you probe the IP from ten different geographic locations you can get within 100 miles of the actual destination and quite often a lot closer than that. Quite often the address we guessed was within 10 miles of that listed in the DNS records (which is not always the right one due to corporations collocating their servers at a different address than the DNS record).
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So what your signature is telling me is that I'm going to have a job when I graduate? Fuck yes.
Re:Why such a map doesn't mean much (Score:5, Funny)
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prior art (Score:5, Funny)
http://xkcd.com/store/ [xkcd.com]
Kinda looks like this (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Kinda looks like this (Score:4, Insightful)
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Cities tend to grow up around train (now highway) lines. For reasons I'd think would be obvious.
Toronto in the 50s was a perfect example. One line north south (Yonge) and east west (Bloor).
Thank you Mr. Cioran.
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As for the horizontal line across Asia, I'm going to guess that's Russia's Trans-Siberian Railroad and all the settlements along it. Even in the more heavily lit region around the Caucasus, one can pick out a line. It appears to run directly from the Baltic near St. Petersburg to the east then south a bit a
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Indeed, more than "much". 90% of our population lives within 160km (100 miles) of the US border. That's 3.5% of the greatest north-south extent of the country. We've got electric lights, computers, cellphones, even broadband here in the north, but it doesn't light up like the far south.
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no match (Score:3, Funny)
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Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
http://xkcd.com/195/ [xkcd.com]
http://xkcd.com/256/ [xkcd.com]
What can we call this "New Map"? (Score:4, Funny)
not 100% right. (Score:5, Interesting)
This map was, I guess, made with some sort of "geolocation" database. I happen to be a customer of a large ISP, they don't assign a whole netblock to my city, so it's registered as part of Buenos Aires . So the data may lie a little (I know that hundreds, if not thousands of Latin American small towns have -paid- wi-fi. Some of them through satellite links, others, the luckier, through leased lines. I happen to be in the industry and have set up 4 wi-fi ISPs, and I know of at least another 10 in my province alone). I think the "world at night" ( http://www.atimes.com/atimes/images/earth_night.jpg [atimes.com] ) map represents what I'm trying to mean. I bet that if the data was completely precise, it would look a lot like this map.
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I don't think so. If you ignore brightness, and compare the number of connections coming out of a large American city like Seattle, San Franciso, or LA to any South American city, it simply has more connections.
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I mean most of it looks spot on to me.
Except for the part where most of Canada is using night goggles instead of lamps.
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i thought that was here? (Score:3, Funny)
I just ask the locals.. (Score:3, Funny)
then, veer left and avoid goats.ex,
take a pitt stop at fark.com - but don't chat with the locals unless ya' wanna get made fun of,
drive straight past slashdot, it's just a tourist trap
take a right at myspace.com.. and be sure to leave them alone. they don't tolerate much
and there ya are.. PORN!
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It is already out of date... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It is already out of date... (Score:5, Informative)
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How about for Google Earth? (Score:2, Interesting)
Mirror link (Score:5, Informative)
Another Mirror link (Score:2)
http://phot.ogra.ph/worldBlack.jpg [phot.ogra.ph] (connectivity map)
http://phot.ogra.ph/worlddotblack.jpg [phot.ogra.ph] (hosts map)
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Coral Caches:
http://www.netdimes.org.nyud.net:8090/new/ [nyud.net]
Not so shocking... (Score:5, Insightful)
That's because beyond those countries, the Southern hemisphere only has a peppering of prosperity. If you want to know why, read "The Wealth and Poverty of Nations".
Penguins (Score:3, Funny)
This is obvious (Score:2)
Is it classified like Sean Gorman map yet? (Score:5, Interesting)
Parts of his dissertation where "removed".
He showed the choke points and critical links.
Maps reminds me of... (Score:2)
Oddly enough (Score:3, Funny)
Mirrors for High Resolution PNGs (Score:2, Informative)
http://slinging.org/InternetMap/medium/worldBlack.jpg [slinging.org]
http://slinging.org/InternetMap/medium/NorthAmericaBlack.jpg [slinging.org]
http://slinging.org/InternetMap/medium/worlddotblack.jpg [slinging.org]
http://slinging.org/InternetMap/medium/worldBlack.jpg [slinging.org]
High Resolution PNGs:
http://slinging.org/InternetMap/high/NorthAmericaBlack.png [slinging.org]
http://slinging.org/InternetMap/high/euroblack.png [slinging.org]
http://slinging.org/InternetMap/high/worldBlack.png [slinging.org]
http://slinging.org/InternetMap/high/worlddotblack.png [slinging.org]
useless map (Score:5, Interesting)
Poor vs Rich (Score:3, Insightful)
This is a definition of third world countries. We are so used to being connected that we take it for granted. Rich countries are perfectly delineated by the amounts of connections they have (USA, Europe, Japan, Southern Australia) and clearly showing that South America, Africa, the Caucasus, India and South Asia are clearly the areas needed to develop.
Yes some points are visible like Sao Paulo, Johannesburg, Mumbai, etc. But it should be the same for the rest of the world. Similar of the map of the world when illuminated at night by city lights. Connectivity should be as common as electrical power.
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