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World Map of Internet Adresses

[caption id="attachment_1013" align="aligncenter" width="650" caption="World Map of Internet Adresses (cutout)"][/caption] This visualizations shows the geographic location of 1,139,441,531 ip adresses. The locations are grouped by city, divided into four categories according to the total number of ip adresses belonging to a city. ...

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Selected Map Projections in ActionScript

Update: I strongly recommend the use of as3-proj instead, which includes far more map projections and lots of other features. Something you definitely need if you're planning to create some geospatial visualizations from scratch is map projection. Map projection means the conversion of sphere coordinates (basically pairs of latitude and longitude values) to 2D-screen coordinates. While this is very easy for smaller regions like single countries things are getting complicated if you want to display the whole world.

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Visualization and interpretation of weather station data

There's some kind of hype around climate data these days. Since the UK’s National Weather Service recently published an enormous set of weather station data files there's a growing number of visualizations spreading the net. Among a few other examples I found this very nice and clear ...

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Real-time Visualization of Site Traffic

The last days I worked on a visualization experiment that shows the geographic locations of blog page requests on a world map. Furthermore, the visualization should be animated over time, so one can replay past events or just view the current live data. The last thing I added was an ...

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Visualization of World Internet Penetration

I just made a corrected version of the previosly mentioned visualization using ActionScript. I tried a few map projections and decided to use the Winkel III projection which has a few advantages over the Mercator projection. One of them is the accaptable area distortion of countries near the ...

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How not to do geospatial visualizations

Yesterday I read an interesting article in the "AI Journal", which is the german news journal of amnesty international. It was about how many people in the world having internet access and how some governments and companies are censoring internet content. Thereby I saw this map: [caption id="attachment_776" align="aligncenter" ...

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Simple Geospatial Visualizations – German Population Density

Today I'm going to demonstrate a simple geospation visualization in flash. Therefore I used a scalable vector graphic of germany which contains individual shapes for every district. and labeled them to the specific district id used by lots of datasets. The common source for data about germany is the ...

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