Infrastructure – Worldmapper https://worldmapper.org the world as you've never seen it before Wed, 10 Jul 2024 22:10:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Anthropocene Worlds https://worldmapper.org/maps/grid-anthropoceneworlds-2016/ https://worldmapper.org/maps/grid-anthropoceneworlds-2016/#respond Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:00:36 +0000 https://worldmapper.org/?post_type=product&p=13301 Human Worlds of the Anthropocene]]> This map shows the land surface resized by its population overlaid with data related to human action and interaction on the planet. Each transformed grid cell in the map is proportional to the total number of people living in that area.

Data sources
This map uses population estimates for the year 2020 based on data from the Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v4 at 0.25 degree resolution, released by SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center). The information of an interconnected world redrawn in this map was assembled by Globaïa. The following datasets were used (accessed October 2016):
– Roads, railways, pipelines, transmission lines: Mapability.com
– Submarine cables: Cablemap.info
– Air routes: ICAO stats
– Shipping lanes: NCEAS data
– Built-up areas: NaturalEarth and SAGE
– Earth at night: NASA

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