Cartographic Representations Of The Internet
DMOZ is an open-content directory of WWW links which uses a hierarchical scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a like theme inwards DMOZ are grouped into categories, which tin as well as thence include smaller categories.
Internaut Explorer uses the CartoDB interactive mapping platform to practise a visualization of DMOZ's 3,809,444 spider web links as well as 782,239 topics. The map allows y'all to explore a visual representation of DMOZ links organized into a radial chart. Each segment of the circle shows a unlike DMOZ category of links. When y'all zoom inwards on the map the private DMOZ link categories appear.
The Internet Map is a Google Map of the 350,000 largest websites inwards the world. The map was created past times Ruslan Enikeev as well as the Russian creative means Positive Communications.
The circles on the map correspond private websites. The size of each circle on the map is determined past times website traffic. The larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle. The place of websites on the map is determined past times the links betwixt sites. The to a greater extent than traffic generated from links betwixt unlike websites as well as thence the closer the websites are displayed on the map.
It is genuinely possible to search the map past times solid soil to notice the virtually pop websites inwards private countries.
Unfortunately the Web 2.0 Summit's Web 2 Map no longer exists. The Web 2 Map used an interesting geographical metaphor to visualize the internet, representing unlike sectors of the Internet every bit countries on a map.
Each solid soil on the map had a majuscule urban inwardness representing the dominant website or companionship inside that sector. The buildings or skyscrapers inwards the urban inwardness acting every bit a metaphor for the unlike information segments inside the dominant actor inwards that sector.
For example, the solid soil of the Union of Social Networks included a Facebook majuscule city. The Facebook urban inwardness was dominated past times a 'social' skyscraper but too includeed a smaller 'location' edifice to reverberate that Facebook too allows users to check-in at unlike locations.
Every twelvemonth Telegeography practise an interactive map of the physical presence of the cyberspace inwards the existent world, alongside their undersea cable map.
The 2015 Submarine Cable map is inspired past times medieval as well as renaissance cartography as well as features non exclusively a vintage map way but ocean monsters, map edge illustrations and images showing only about of the mutual causes of cable faults.
The map shows 299 submarine cable systems across the globe, that are active or are nether construction. The edge illustrations provide information on the capacity information of only about of the major cable routes. Other inset illustrations render information on how submarine cables are laid.
Images on the map explicate only about of the mutual causes of cable faults. Some fictional causes of cable faults are too included inwards the map inwards the flat of mythical ocean monsters. The text provided alongside each monster includes a reference to which historical map the mythical animal was taken from.
