MetaFilter posts tagged with maps and internet

internet mapping

nickyskye — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:55:12 -0800

Internet Mapping Project l slide-showl more about it here. Please draw a map of the internet, as you see it. Indicate your "home". You can download a blank PDF here and email it to [Kevin Kelly] when done. In posting the images on Flickr I suggested that they would make great fodder for a creative scholar. Much to my surprise two days later, a professor in Argentina wrote the first paper with a first attempt to classify this initial set of maps. Other innovative mapping of the internet: The xkcd internet and online communities map. Data-Visualization maps. The Dmoz tree map of the whole internet. The DIMES map and related site. Mapping movements/feelings within the internet.

Internet Event Horizons

Kronos_to_Earth — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:46:30 -0800

Having trouble connecting to a site? It may be you and many others got too close to a network event horizon and the packets ...disappeared.... The internets has black holes, too. via

NYC Google Maps Trip Planner

allkindsoftime — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:30:11 -0800

Yet another Google Maps hack for the NYC subway system. This one helps you plan your trip from point A to point B, and gives you an estimated travel time. Most locals will quickly find that the routes it suggests usually aren't the optimum, however this may be useful for visitors, at least until Friday morning. In the event of a strike, this is your best bet for some form of direction.

Mapping the captive globe

none — Sun, 16 Mar 2003 08:19:07 -0800

Mapping the captive globe (.pdf heavy) (via Metamute)

802.11b Survey Map of NYC

Voyageman — Thu, 12 Dec 2002 06:04:52 -0800

802.11b Survey Map of NYC Following the NYC Bloggers Map, what else should mapped in NYC, smoking rooms?

gleuschk — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:14:51 -0800

The TouchGraph GoogleBrowser uses Google's related: links to visualize local maps of the web. Enter www.metafilter.com and watch the spider unfurl its arms. Click on "Show Singles" for more specific pages, or set the "radius" to 10 for more nodes. (Full instructions are here. ) Requires something called the Java Virtual Machine and may be IE-only, but that doesn't matter: my neighbors just called to ask if I was going to keep whooping like that all night.

gleuschk — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 09:10:40 -0800

The ThreeRing Web Mapping project adds a dot to a blank canvas showing your geographic location (or that of your ISP, as best it can guess based on your IP address). They've also got a code snippet to put on your own site that automagically adds your visitors to the map. The US is already clearly defined, Europe is getting there, and Oceania is coming into view. (They've also got one of them Tag-Board thingies, which is painful to read for any length of time.)

tranquileye — Tue, 23 Oct 2001 18:25:08 -0800

There are several sites that present maps of the Internet: geographic, technical, and historical. And now, you can hang one on your wall.