This tutorial is the third part of a tutorial series about customized map projection in flash/actionscript. It demonstrates how to draw a world map using the as3-proj library and some helper classes. Continue reading
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World Map of Internet Adresses
World Map of Internet Adresses (cutout)
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. The categories are net-metropoles (more than 10,000,000 IPs), net-capitals (1,000,000 up tp 10,000,000 IPs), net-cities (100,000 up 1,000,000 IPs) and net-villages (fewer than 100,000 IPs). IP adresses that cannot be allocated to a city were left out.
I created this visualization using ActionScript, based on my classes for map projections and polygon maths, which you can download for own usage. The data was extracted from the free GeoLite-City database by MaxMind.
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 indicator for night and day phases in the world. Here you can see a little preview video showing the current results…
I did this with pure AS3.
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 poles.
All data is taken from internetworldstats.com.