Mar 062007
A map of the world hangs in my office and I glance at it from time to time. It isn’t anything special. It’s great for finding where exactly Azerbaijan is, but it doesn’t give you any sense of the the dynamics that affect the inhabitants of our planet. The Worldmapper project is a fascinating initiative to convert the standard world map into graphical depictions of human activity. The results are often sobering. I first encountered these maps in the pages of The Atlantic, but they seem to be one of the emerging memes on the internets.
