11. detail from Rand, Mc.Nally & Co's official railroad map of the United States with portions
of the Dominion of Canada, the Republic of Mexico, and the West Indies, circa 1893
12. Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, NSFNET, 1992
From Martin Dodge’s “An Atlas of Cyberspaces”
15. “In Transit” from Cabspotting
Stamen Design, using data from Yellow Cab
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19. infrastructure maps: what could happen
flow maps: what does happen
Maps of infrastructure show
us what’s possible.
Maps of flow show us what
actually happens.
24. GAP map of Technorati influential bloggers. 8/31/09
Attention matters, too.
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26. - How many of these pages are written
by Americans?
- By English speakers?
- By people from a very
different socio-economic strata?
- By people who strongly disagree
with me on an ideological issue?