Final week somebody posted an animation of a Typographic Map of France on Reddit. This map regularly added the names of 1,156 French communes to a clean canvas, beginning with these with the biggest populations. I actually appreciated the impact of the animation and remembered that TripGeo’s Scrambled Maps has a database of round 11,000 cities worldwide – full with inhabitants information. That meant I ought to have the ability to create a world model of the map.
My interactive Typographic Map offers a singular solution to watch the world’s main cities seem one after the other. As an alternative of loading all metropolis labels without delay, the map regularly reveals them so as of inhabitants dimension – beginning with the biggest cities and dealing its manner all the way down to smaller ones. With greater than 11,000 locations within the dataset, you possibly can sit again and watch the planet replenish with names, or take management of the tempo with just a few helpful buttons (it ought to solely take round 1 hour half-hour to see all 11k labels added to the map).
How It Works
When the map masses, it begins with a clean white canvas. Each few hundred milliseconds, one other metropolis label is added. The order isn’t random – cities are sorted by inhabitants, so megacities like Tokyo, Delhi, and Shanghai seem first, adopted by mid-sized cities and ultimately smaller cities.
Every metropolis is added as a degree function with a textual content label. For those who allow the optionally available circle layer, cities are additionally drawn as semi-transparent dots sized in line with their inhabitants – bigger cities get larger dots.
