2012-03-27
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The Cable & Wireless Giant Circle Map of 1945, photographed by iamdanw.
There’s a neater version at “Along What Dimension Is Cyberspace”, a post on what looks at a quick glance to be the fascinating (if slightly neglected) refractal site. (Again, thanks to Dan W for the pointer.)
It’s interesting comparing this decorative, slightly off-centred polar azimuthal map to the Pan Am route map, made just twenty years later, that I posted earlier. For example, the Empire and Dominions (as they then were) are shown in red, whereas Pan Am leaves the entire world off-white, and there’s far more labelling. Of course, both have the handy property of showing great circles (other than the Equator) as straight lines.
2012-01-07
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Fixing wires. Taken from To Know, But Not To Understand, an excerpt of David Weinberger’s new book, in the Atlantic. (Photographer unknown, but credited to Reuters.)
2011-07-13
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Cellphone Calls Reveal The United States’s Invisible Ties at Co.Design, via new-aesthetic (although it’s been all over for a while), originally from Sensable City’s Connected States project.
One noteworthy part, for me anyway, is that Alabama and Georgia are grouped together, despite the fact that they span a timezone boundary.
