The Continents Of Reddit

The Internet Map is 1 of my all fourth dimension favorite maps created amongst the Google Maps API. The map visualizes the 350,000 largest websites inwards the world.

The circles on this map stand upwardly for private websites on the Internet. The size of the circle beingness determined past times the total of traffic on the website, The larger the total of traffic, the bigger the circle. The place of websites on the map is determined past times the links betwixt sites. The to a greater extent than traffic that is generated from links betwixt dissimilar websites together with then the closer the websites are displayed on the map.

This geographical grouping past times the line of links betwixt the dissimilar websites creates an interesting map where it is possible to distinguish distinct communities on the Internet.


The Reddit World Map is a like interactive map, this fourth dimension visualizing the communities of the 'front page of the Internet'. The Reddit World Map represents every subreddit equally a dot. Subreddits are located only about each other on the map when many users comment or post service on both subreddits.

The subreddits amongst many connections are mapped inwards cherry-red together with those amongst few connections are mapped inwards blue. By grouping the subreddits past times user activeness clear communities of Reddit users emerge on the map. In fact the spider web log post introducing the map includes an interesting static version of the map where the continents of Reddit are picked out on the map.