Map of The Internet
The other day I stumbled upon Chris Harrison’s internet map, the only problem I found with his map is that I wanted to know exactly which country each network connection was in. So using the DIMES public data repository, and 1site1moment’s country boarders I have mapped the internet for myself.
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Feel free to download the source code and come up with your own internet map, I would love to see what other people can come up with.
UPDATE 01: Image is back up, If the source code link wont work for you email me and I will send you a copy. Feel free to host this anywhere you like just post a link back to this site.
UPDATE 02: Source code can now also be found here.
UPDATE 03: Would love to see what other people can do with this.
looks cool. when i ran the script, i got this. using kubuntu 7.10 RC. Any further help you can provide? im not accustomed to playing with code…
(gnome-open:7902): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: expand_macro: assertion `uris != NULL’ failed
(gnome-open:7902): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: expand_macro: assertion `uris != NULL’ failed
(gnome-open:7902): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: expand_macro: assertion `uris != NULL’ failed
Wake up the CIA, FBI, and NSA! We have a lot of mysterious traffic coming from an unknown location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere south of Ghana. This could be an emerging internet threat
No “map of the Internet” post is complete without the obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/195/
(Also, I cannot see your map: “The bandwidth or page view limit for this site has been exceeded and the page cannot be viewed at this time. Once the site is below the limit, it will once again begin serving as normal.”)
surlyjak oops, you may want to edit that script and change gnome-open to your fave image viewer (or just run the python code then open the image manualy)
Marius Gedminas thanks looks like I need to find a new host
Mike, Ya I have not been able to figure that one out.
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Hi earobinson
and all you Internet Map folks :D.
(about a hour of rendering).
The lines that are gathering near south of Ghana are in the central point of the image so we can presume that the destination point of that lines was not in the map range or one of the servers was not localizable OR the destination point lies somewhere in the cosmos :).
I managed to spend 3.29 minutes on rendering a bigger map (about 18000×8000, it’s hard to open it in anything :D) but I managed to open it only in xara lx (vector graphics app). The scales were set to 50 & 50. If you want to know it took about 74% of my CPU to generate it. I killed the X server for this operation :P. I wanted to make even a bigger one (scale 100 & 100) but it gave me a memory error near the end
I’ll post the link in a while because I’m experiencing some network issues right now ;/.
Zamber, hey thanks for the feedback, If you look at internetImage.py line 138 takes care of the void points, im really not sure if that’s a second void point or not. I also generated a large scale version but it killed my bandwidth (hence the blog move) and so I took it down.
Would love to see what you have come up with.
Yay! My net is back and stable ;]. Here you can find the promised render http://localhostr.com/files/078add0fa1288b63e26e.gz
Enjoy!
PS
I would like to post it on my flickr but convert (a part of imagemagick) can’t get a reasonable grip on a file of this size. Gotta any ideas?
Thanks for the link, you could scale the image down after it has rendered large using the SAVE_SCALE var if that’s the problem your having.
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