From ucfnmad@ucl.ac.uk Thu Mar 5 16:47:29 1998 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 16:27:06 +0000 (GMT) From: martin dodge To: m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk Subject: Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 11 - 5th March 1998 ========================================================================== == Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 11 - 5th March 1998 == ========================================================================== Welcome to the eleventh Cyber-Geography research Update Bulletin. This is a regular, free, email bulletin to inform you of changes and new additions made to The Geography of Cyberspace Directory and the Atlas of Cyberspaces on the Cyber-Geography Research web site. The bulletin will distributed about once a month, depending on how much time I have available for my cyberspace exploration. Update Information - The Geography of Cyberspace Directory ========================================================== * http://www.cybergeography.org/geography_of_cyberspace.html * * http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html * New for the "Mapping the Internet" section : * VisualRoute, a neat traceroute utility, that will map the resulting traces for the US. (http://www.visualroute.com) * tracemap from MIDS & Alexa. Allows your to run traceroute interactively from their web site. Resulting traceroutes are presented as detailed geographical maps, tables and graphs. Try tracemap from http://mids.alexa.com/test/tracemap/. * Maproute "is a tool currently under development by the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), designed to allow users to visualize the paths messages take when they travel from one machine to another over the global Internet." Try out Maproute at http://www.caida.org/Tools/Maproute/. Also, if you really want to, you can use Maproute to trace from the CASA (the research centre where I work) web server http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/. New in the "Visualising Information Spaces" section : * Visual Insights, interactive data visualization software to help business managers quickly uncover and analyze trends and patterns in their corporate data. (http://www.visualinsights.com/) * Inxight Software, producing advanced information visualisation technologies. (http://www.inxight.com/) * ThemeMedia, innovative company developing interactive knowledge visualization and analysis applications. (http://www.thememedia.com/) * Umap, an interesting information mapping tool from French company Trivium. Turns results from web search engines into two dimensional information maps which you can interactively explore. (http://www.umap.com/) New in the "Internet Traffic, Size and Demographic Statistics" section : * Network Wizard's latest survey in January 1998 showed an estimated 29.7 million hosts on the Internet. (Further details at : http://www.nw.com/zone/WWW/report.html) * NetSizer - Internet Growth Forecasting Tool. Developed by Christian Huitema and Sam Weerahandi of Bellcore. Try it at : http://www.netsizer.com/ New for the "Some Useful References" section : * Greenman B., 1998, "America's 100 Most Wired Cities & Towns", Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, March 1998. (http://www..zdnet.com/yil/content/mag/9803/citytoc.html) * Jiang B. & Ormeling F.J., 1997, "Cybermap : the Map for Cyberspace", The Cartographic Journal, December 1997, Vol. 34, No. 2, pages 111-116. * Ubois J., 1998, "Casting an Information Net", UPSIDE.COM, 2nd February 1998. (http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=34ce6fdb0) Update Information - An Atlas of Cyberspaces ============================================ * http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html * * http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html * A new page has been created for the Atlas presenting census and statistical maps of the Internet. Current examples included in the page are : - Larry Landweber "census" maps of changing Internet connectivity. - A statistical maps of the Internet produced by Matrix Internet & Directory Services (MIDS). - Mike Jensen maps of changing level of Internet access for the countries in Africa. - An example of the statistical maps produced by TeleGeography, Inc. A number of other fascinating new maps and images have been added to other pages : Topology Maps * Plankton - a visualization of the hierarchical topology of the international web cache. (http://ipn.nlanr.net/Tools/Plankton/). Developed by Bradley Huffaker at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA). Info Maps * A information map produced using Trivium's Umap (http://www.umap.com/) * A "satellite" map of AlphaWorld, a large 3D multi-user virtual worlds run by ActiveWorlds (http://www.activeworlds.com/events/satellite.html) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I will be at two conferences in the USA later this month. First, the "TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE CITY" conference in Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. from March 21-23, 1998 (See http://www.uga.edu/~urbancomm/ for more details on the conference). I am then going to the Association of American Geographers 94th annual meeting in Boston from 25-29th March (see http://www.aag.org/). If you happen to be at these conferences please feel free to say hi. Thanks for your time, martin dodge ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I welcome your comments on the usefulness of the update bulletin and also on my Web pages. Suggestions for new information on the theme of the geography of the Internet, WWW and Cyberspace are also welcome. Send them to m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk. If you want to be removed from the update bulletin distribution list please email me at m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk, with a subject line like "Please remove me from the update bulletin", remembering to include your email address. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *============================================* | MARTIN DODGE - email : m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk | |--------------------------------------------| | Cyber-Geography Research | |Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) | | University College London, | | 1-19 Torrington Place, | | London, WC1E 6BT. United Kingdom. | | -------------------------------------------| | 0171 391 1782 | | www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ | | www.cybergeography.org/ | *============================================* *============================================* | MARTIN DODGE - email : m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk | |--------------------------------------------| | Cyber-Geography Research | |Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) | | University College London, | | 1-19 Torrington Place, | | London, WC1E 6BT. United Kingdom. | | -------------------------------------------| | 0171 391 1782 | | www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ | | www.cybergeography.org/ | *============================================*