Wind Map. An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.
This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US. The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. Maps for Airports. Context for travelers 2008 Flying from one airport to another can often feel like quantum leaps through space and time.
To provide a context for travelers, Candy Chang created this map for the Illuminators public art exhibit at Koltsovo International Airport in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Images of the social and economic world. Here is an ordinary map of the world: Click on image for a larger version Roughly speaking, on a map like this, the sizes of the countries of the world are in proportion to their actual sizes on the surface of the planet and their shapes are the same as their actual shapes.
(This is only approximate though, since some distortion is inevitable when you go from a spherical planet to a flat map.)