Infographic of the Day: It's a Small World, After All

[Crafty_Pat]

"If you're wondering how 'close' two places are, a geographic map doesn't help much anymore. If the airports are good--or if there's a bullet train nearby--hundreds of miles might as well be down the street. Point being, 'distance' is now really a function less of geography, than of the transport networks we've invented.

"Which is why researchers at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and the World Bank, created this gorgeous map."

[Wolverine]

I thought that NZ would have been a lot darker than it ended up being, but then I saw that they set the bar relatively low. Even we can pull of a city of 50,000 people every few hundred kilometres.

[Sletchman]

I figured central australia would be darker then it is, its a pity its not zoom-able, or a larger pic.

[Agent 333]

There minimum is 50,000 people? My hometown hits 30,000, and it's not that big... (then again, I am in the Northeast, right on the fringes of BosWash...)