Map of the World’s Undersea Internet Cables

A few months back there were reports that the undersea cables that bring internet connectivity to Iraq and a few surrounding countries were getting “accidentally” cut. Three or more, only a few days apart.

Ever wonder what that network of cables looks like?

Where the worlds internet superhighways actually sit?

Take a look at the greater map of all those cables less then 10cm in diameter that allow us all to communicate.

source: The Guardian UK

Automotive Ownership Map

Right now is a really bad time to try to keep track of which auto company owns which brands since they are all consolidating, selling & canceling their various brands. Till the time comes that there is a GM-Ford brand (and I would not be surprised to see that in the next decade) a tree of all the various brand branches is a nice thing to have.

source: Jalopnik

Who has the World’s Oil

How much oil do we think there is right now? Who has it and more importantly how much do that consume?

As most everyone knows now a days the countries that make up the Middle East hold over 60% of the worlds known oil supply. Which adds up to over 700 billion barrels of oil. With Russia & the United States bringing up a distant second and third with just under 100 billion barrels.

source: Civic Actions

Real Time World Emergency Disaster Map

What if you have a real time map of the worlds earthquakes, volcano eruptions, hurricanes/typhoons, wars, epidemics & toxic accidents? All being tracked over time and all tied to a nice zoomable Google maps interface.

That would seem both long overdue and probably impossible to pull off. Someone has done it.

An information agency in Hungary has tied it all together. Not exactly sure where they are getting their information from since I can not speak Hungarian but I would assume it is a feed from the United Nations. If anyone knows for sure please leave a comment of the sites history.

Regardless it is one of the most addictive sites I have seen in a long time and has the potential of being on the the most interesting map/websites around if they could only clean the interface up a small amount.

source: Host Site

Animated World Map of CO2 Emissions

Breathing Earth has taken the World Factbook data and applied it to an animated flash map and give you more of a big picture image. Nothing very new but old data in a new way.