Saturday, January 24, 2009

Map: world accessibility and world at night (& happy lunar new year)


This is the famous satellite map of "world at night" pasted together by a few shots by NASA.

It reflects the population density and economic development (manifested more specifically energy/electricity availability).

It is interesting to compare it with the traffic linkage maps, (via Thomas Barnett) which is colored by the number of hours it takes to travel from some major EU city to that point on earth.

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