Map of the Month
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Martin Dodge is a Researcher in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London and is the creator of the Atlas of Cyberspaces.
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aerial photo map of a small chunk of AlphaWorld Mapping A Virtual City
In This Edition of Map of the Month

      What would a virtual city in cyberspace look like? Well, a sequence of 'satellite' maps of AlphaWorld provide us with a pretty good idea These fascinating maps show the growth of buildings, streets, parks and gardens designed and constructed by the citizens of the virtual world of AlphaWorld over the past five years. The virtual cartographer responsible is Roland Vilett, the lead programmer on the virtual world system at Activeworlds.com, which encompasses AlphaWorld and several hundred other worlds on the Internet.

Current Edition » Map of the Month #013, 1 June 2000.



Map of the Month Archives
05/01/00 Map of the Month #012 "Maps to Market Your Network" - How UUNET markets their infrastructure using maps. Go
04/03/00 Map of the Month #011 "Mapping the Global Spread of the Net" - The virus-like spread of the Internet around the globe is the subject of a series by Larry Landweber. Go
03/01/00 Map of the Month #010 "Conceptual Map of Net Spaces Circa '94" - There's an Internet beyond the Web on John December's CyberMap Landmarks. Go
02/01/00 Map of the Month #009 "A Map of Yahoo!" - Yahoo! is the undisputed king of Web directories. Would an interactive map of Yahoo!'s hierarchical classification be a more useful navigational tool? Go
01/01/00 Map of the Month #008 "Missile Tracks Across The Net" - Stephen G. Eick's color coded arches have become popular icons for visualizing the Internet. Go
12/01/99 Map of the Month #007 "MIDS Maps the Internet World" - John S. Quarterman's Matrix Internet and Directory Services consultancy has been mapping cyberspace for a decade. Red pill not required. Go
11/01/99 Map of the Month #006 "Web Site Maps from Dynamic Diagrams" - Z-Diagrams help designers visualize large Web sites in two-and-a-half dimensions. Go
10/01/99 Map of the Month #005 "Mapping MUDs" - Multi-User Dimensions are shared fantasy realms built of words and visible only in a player's mind. Can they be mapped? Go
09/01/99 Map of the Month #004 "Mapping How The Data Flows (traceroute)" - The links and hops of the hidden world of the Internet are revealed as Martin Dodge puts three traceroute mapping programs to the test. Go
08/01/99 Map of the Month #003 "Internet Arcs Around The Globe (1996)" - Arcs above the globe trace MBone topology in a map series by Munzer, et al. Go
07/01/99 Map of the Month #002 "Tim Bray's Hyperlink Totems (1995)" - Totem pole icons of web sites glow with hyperlink light in Tim Bray's 1995 map of the Internet. Go
06/01/99 Map of the Month #001 "ARPANET, October 1980" - Peering back into the dim and distant past - October 1980 - Martin Dodge presents a map of the ARPANET. One of the earliest attempts to chart the reaches of Cyberspace, it reminds us that today's Internet is a cold war child. Go





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