Came across this today at information aesthetics, which is part of a larger pdf file which can be found here as part of this entry. I’m tempted to make it a multi-page printout and send it to the color printer here in the office, as I think a 2×2 or 3×3 copy of it would look nice. Mind you, this is just of the North American continent, no the entire world, and it is the routers. To put it better:
…it is not geographic. Things on the right aren’t on the East Coast and so forth. It looks the way it looks for readability purposes. The lines are actual connections between routers, but the length of the lines, again, do not correspond to geographic distance.
The map is interesting to look at. Hopefully I’ll be able to take a better look at it in the upcoming week. Just by reading the byline (form follows data - towards creative information visualization) and looking over some of the recent entries on information aesthetics, I’m going to have to look more into that site, as it appears rather interesting. Really, I’m a sucker for any maps that attempt to map things, especially if it deals with people, groups, and cyber-stuff.
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