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Mapping Cyberspace Using Geographic Metaphors

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.




John Quarterman and colleagues at Matrix Information Directory Services (MIDS) are leaders in the mapping and analysis of the geography of Internet.




MIDS also produce an animated map called the Internet Weather Report (IWR), which dynamically maps the condition of the Internet measured by timing network latencies six times a day from MIDS HQ in Texas to over four thousand domains around the world. Show below are three frames from an IWR of East Asia. To fully appreciate the dynamic nature of IWR, see the animated maps in action at www.mids.org/weather/.



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.






Real-Time Geographic Visualization of World Wide Web Traffic research undertaken by Stephen E. Lamm and Daniel A. Reed, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, USA.




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.


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.





A map of the registration location of Internet domain names in the USA and a 3D view of the density of domain names registered in the state of Delaware. These maps were produced by Internet.Org



A Usenet flow map from May 1993 produced by Brian Reid, DEC. (A range of Reid' Usenet maps are available, in postscript format, from ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/maps/letter/ )


Two examples of the research work ofStephen G. Eick and colleagues at Bell Laboratories into the visualization and analysis of Internet traffic flows. See his Network Visualization Gallery for many other fascinating images.




WebHopper, an experimental mapping of Internet traffic in real-time developed by Sensorium.




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