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Sorry, the Cybergeography Research web pages are no longer being updated. The project ran from 1997-2004, but my research has moved away into other areas (see my blog for latest). If you have any questions or comments, please email me at: m.dodge (at) manchester.ac.uk. Cheers, Martin Dodge, February 2007. |
| Introduction | Whats New | Conceptual | Artistic | 
Geographic
| Cables & Satellites
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| Census | Topology | Info Maps | Info Landscapes | Info Spaces | ISP Maps | Weather Maps |
| Wireless | Web Site Maps | Surf Maps | MUDs & Virtual Worlds
| Historical |
A fascinating Visualization Study of the NSFNET, undertaken by Donna Cox and Robert Patterson from the NCSA in 1992. The impressive images shown below are some of the results of this study.
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John S. Quarterman has long been mapping and analysing the topology and geography of the Internet. An example of one of his maps from 1999 is shown below. [For more information see the Map of the Month article "MIDS Maps the Internet World" in Mappa.Mundi Magazine.] |
Tamara Munzner and colleagues are visualising the global topology of the MBone using 3D global geographic models. These images provide a flavour of the visualisations produced.
| [For more information on the MBone maps see the Map of the Month article "Internet Arcs Around the Globe" in Mappa.Mundi Magazine.] |
| The Palantir WWW traffic visualisation application developed by Nektarios Papadakakis, Evangelos P. Markatos and Athanasios E. Papathanasiou at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Crete. |
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A map of domain name ownership at street level for downtown San Francisco, circa summer 1998. The map was produced by Matthew Zook as part of his Internet Geography project analysing the spatial patterns of the Internet industry.
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| This image shows the interface of Ride the Byte, a virtual reality installation for exploring how Internet traffic is routed across the globe. The installation was created by Art+Com and first exhibited in the Wired Worlds gallery at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in the UK. |  |
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The red dots on this map show the distribution of websites with a GeoURL. This is a tag that links web space to geographic space, and enables web searches by location and proximity. The project is run by Joshua Schachter and as of April 2003 there were over ten thousand websites registered. It is free and simple to get give your own website a GeoURL.
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A single frame from an animated map showing monthly Internet performance measured from Stanford to around 70 different countries across the world. It is created as part of the PingER project for end-to-end Internet performance monitoring by researchers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. |
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Analysing the Geography of Internet Address Space, research by Martin Dodge and Narushige Shiode in the geography of ownership of blocks of Internet (IP) addresses in the United Kingdom. |
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A Usenet flow map from May 1993
produced by Brian
Reid, formerly of DEC.
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| [For more information on Reid's maps see the Map of the Month article "Flowing from Site to Site" in Mappa.Mundi Magazine.] |
| Two examples of the research work of Stephen G. Eick
(eick@acm.org) and colleagues at Bell Laboratories into the
visualization and analysis of Internet traffic flows. Their 1996
research paper "3D
Geographic Network Display" provides further details.
[For more information see the Map of the Month article "Missile Tracks Across the Net" in Mappa.Mundi Magazine.] |
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Below are screenshots of the London Bloggers tube
map and nyc
bloggers subway map. |
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This map compares the geographic distribution of Internet routers (top) against the global distribution of population (bottom). It was produced by Soon-Hyung Yook, Hawoong Jeong, and Albert-Laszlo Barabasi at the University of Notre Dame as part of their research in the network structure of the Internet. For more information see their paper, Modeling the Internet's large scale topology, July 2001. |
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An example of the Internet maps produced by Anthony Townsend. He is researching the geography of the Internet as part of the Information City project. More maps are available in their gallery. |
| Introduction | Whats New | Conceptual | Artistic | Geographic
| Cables & Satellites
| Traceroutes |
| Census | Topology | Info Maps | Info Landscapes | Info Spaces | ISP Maps | Weather Maps |
| Wireless | Web Site Maps | Surf Maps | MUDs & Virtual Worlds
| Historical |
Want to know
more?
Why not check out the book of the Atlas
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Sorry, the Cybergeography Research web pages are no longer being updated. The project ran from 1997-2004, but my research has moved away into other areas (see my blog for latest). If you have any questions or comments, please email me at: m.dodge (at) manchester.ac.uk. Cheers, Martin Dodge, February 2007. |
Maps can be useful tools for
cataloguing weblogs based on the location of the blogger. Here are
three informative blog maps that make use of iconic subway maps for
their respective cities to provide a strong visual template. The map on
the left shows the 