Ilse and I assumed Sydney to be pretty remote… However, when you take a look at the map below, it is evident it can get worse, much worse. The map shows the number of days it would take from a certain location to reach the nearest city (50,000+ inhabitants), without using air travel.
The most remote location in the world lies somewhere in Tibet. It would take you only 20 days to travel to the city! Incredible :)
(Source with other cool maps)
On the other hand this would be the place to be if a worldwide plague struck us all (Philip K. Dick style)!
I’d like to see a map representing average number of computing devices per inhabitant + speed of network traffic, see how it correlates to actual physical transport speed above…
Here’s a start: http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=337
True, but I’m not a big fan of the relative territory changes, sometimes it’s hard to tell the actual measure and how big it is. Probably because i’m bad at estimating 2D sized and sometimes i don’t have a clue of the original territory size ;-)
I find many eyes is interesting for visualizations as well. For example Obama’s speech in Cairo