Atlas of Cyberspace by Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge

By Rob Kitchin, Martin Dodge

Explores the hot cartographic and visualization strategies being hired within the mapping of our on-line world, targeting the parts of; net infrastructure and site visitors flows, the realm extensive net, on-line dialog and neighborhood, and Imaging our on-line world in paintings, literature and movie.

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In this section we examine several different attempts to produce maps that perform this role. The maps shown opposite are some of the earliest of Internet traffic flows still publicly available. They display data traffic flows on the Usenet network in 1993 (see page 164 for a fuller discussion of Usenet). They were created as part of a project to measure the number of hosts in the Usenet network and the amount of traffic (number and volume of posted articles) flowing between them, along with estimates of the number of readers, from 1986 to the early 1990s.

Unlike Landweber’s maps, then, a north–south divide is clearly evident, with developing countries in Africa and South America having comparatively fewer hosts. Further interpretation, beyond a global overview, is difficult because the scale of the map has led to significant overplotting, making it difficult to identify the geographic locale of each symbol. Net M a p p i n g i n f r a s t r u c t u re a n d t r a ff i c 27 Domain name maps Computers identify other computers on the Internet using a globally unique number called an IP (Internet Protocol) address.

19: 3-D hyperbolic visualization of Internet topologies c h i e f c a r t o g r a p h e r : Young Hyun (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis – CAIDA). a i m : to provide interactive exploration of huge graphs (greater than 100,000 nodes) showing complex structures of Internet routing. f o r m : dense and organic, jellyfish-like 3-D graphs projected inside a transparent sphere. t e c h n i q u e : data gathered from automatic measurements of the Internet topology by skitter. Visualization through custom-written hyperbolic graph-viewer code named Walrus.

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