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TeleGeography releases Vintage-style Maps and Charts to reflect the current state of the submarine cables that carry the world's internet traffic.
The latest edition depicts 299 cable systems that are currently active, under construction, or expected to be fully-funded by the end of 2015.
This year’s map pays tribute to the pioneering mapmakers of the Age of Discovery, incorporating elements of medieval and renaissance cartography. In addition to serving as navigational aids, maps from this era were highly sought-after works of art, often adorned with fanciful illustrations of real and imagined dangers at sea. Such embellishments largely disappeared in the early 1600s, pushing modern map design into a purely functional direction.
The Interactive Map also contains inserts for latency, lift capacity, and dangers to cables.
(Score: 1) by Tedderouni on Wednesday March 18 2015, @04:00AM
This. I would totally buy one of these if it was a reasonable price. This should be something close to $40 for a nice poster-size print. And the images on the website are useless - the interactive version lets you zoom in at high detail, but all the normal static image formats they provide are unreadable. This is a missed opportunity.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 18 2015, @01:07PM
Should be pretty easy to pull all the images at the highest res from the interactive map and stitch them together, no?