space-time map for our observable universe

This is a map of the space-time for our observable universe. It shows two of three spatial dimensions and the time.

Found on Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery

George F. Smoot ::: Cosmologist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Recipient, The Nobel Prize For Physics 2006; Coauthor, Wrinkles in Time

The true size of Africa

by Kai Krause: true-size-of-africa.jpg

telegraph network 1901

Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery

Global Growth of Broadband

from bbc news

real-time flight tracker

real-time flight tracker in the Netherlands for Google Earth

google earth blog

who is the internet

Interactive maps points of control for the Web 2.0 Summit

 turn movements on/off

The battle for network economy

AS Paths

map illustrating AS paths using right angles links based on data sets provided by NASA 

http://www.sysctl.org/rootzmap/

Visualizations of the wide world web

full Internet map were the colors are based on Class A allocation of IP space to different registrars in the world

static and dynamic 2D JPG/PNG images and 3D VRML maps of the Internet

http://www.opte.org/maps/

over 5 million edges and estimated 50 million hop count

Asia Pacific - Red
Europe/Middle East/Central Asia/Africa - Green
North America - Blue
Latin American and Caribbean - Yellow
RFC1918 IP Addresses - Cyan
Unknown - White

older rather incomplete Graphviz graph

marine traffic live

 

http://marinetraffic.com/ais/

new maps of the world's connectedness

Hours travel

The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water.

The model combines information on terrain and access to road, rail and river networks. It also considers how factors like altitude, steepness of terrain and hold-ups like border crossings slow travel.

Plotted onto a map, the results throw up surprises. First, less than 10% of the world's land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city.
 
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/small-world/1

roads to somewhere

 

railways

shippings

navigable rivers

landcover

roads in west Afrika