The International Networks Archive developed eight maps that deal with an array of major current world issues, from the serious to the seriously frivolous. Topics include:

  • SSSMOKIN!: The Global Tobacco Trade
  • GETTING AROUND: Transportation Today
  • GLASS HALF EMPTY: The Coming Water Wars
  • CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON: The Global Arms Trade
  • STEALING THE SHOW: The Global Movie Biz
  • RED TAPE: The Government Grind
  • THE MAGIC BEAN SHOP: Starbucks
  • THE FRIES THAT BIND US: McDonalds

The infographic maps were developed for the INA by Flaming Toast Productions.

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A main goal of the International Networks Archive is to develop a new system of mapping our world -- one that does not rely on geography, but on more meaningful parameters like access to world markets or communications infrastructure.

The INA developed two interactive online maps that don't use traditional geography as their organizing principle. The first map reconfigures 23 world cities based on travel time between the cities instead of distance. The second map uses data sets to dynamically generate non-geographic maps of the world.

The maps were developed for the INA by Flaming Toast Productions.

>> See the maps.

 

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