Is there anything Google Maps CAN’T DO? An interactive design firm in Estonia has pulled together tourism data and created a heatzone map of the entire world that shows where tourists visit the most. Things get a little too fuzzy as you zoom in, but from the country level on up to the whole globe level is pretty cool. (via Information Is Beautiful)
Nothing like a little infographicporn to brighten one’s day. This one asserts that if you took all 300 million-or-so inhabitants of the United States and packed them all into one place at the population density of Brooklyn, NY (which is to say 35,000 people per square mile), everybody would fit into an area about the size of the state of New Hampshire. (graphic found at Strange Maps, actual origin unknown)
Now, if you really wanted to pack ‘em in, you’d want to go with the population density of Mumbai, which has a population density of 76,793.5 people per square mile. That would squeeze everybody into a space the size of Connecticut, with each person’s own space coming to about a little over 4,600 square feet. Heck, a one-bedroom apartment in New York is lucky to be 750 square feet, so that’s PLENTY of room for each person!
Sorry, no pets, no smokers.
Via Fast Company comes a link to some infographics over at New Scientist including a map which shows the interconnectedness of the modern world in terms of proximity to urban centers and availability of transportation networks (the actual NS article, which appeared in April ’09, is only available online to magazine subscribers, but you can read a brief summary here)
The picture above is a closeup from their global map and shows what is the remotest place on Earth: Central Tibet. The lack of populated areas or even roads in this region means that if you’re stuck there it’s a three-week walk to the nearest ANYTHING.
According to the Fast Company post (they obviously paid to read the actual article), less than 10% of the Earth’s surface is more than 48 hours’ travel from an urban center (defined as a city with a population of 500,000 or more). Even 80% of the depths of the Amazon rainforest are within two days of a city due to river transportation AND the increasing encroachment of development into the rainforest itself.
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