Gallery: This Wild Map Redraws the World Using Airport Locations
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Data visualization expert Jason Davies has created a new map that shows what the world will look like if air marshals ever stage a coup.
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A spherical Voroni diagram creates new borders by finding the exact midpoint between any two airports.
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The lines on Davies' maps essentially plot the exact midpoint between the two closest airports
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The map was created in partnership with designer Mike Bostock in an attempt to improve the D3 Javascript library to better handle geographic data.
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This map shows what happens when the same Voroni principle is applied to national capitals rather than airports.
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"It’s been interesting to learn more about the complexities of world administrative regions, boundaries and capitals, and also about how much it means to people," says Davies.
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When applied to state capitals, the Voroni method renders the county unrecognizable except at the borders.
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Davies has applied this technique to other data sets, like the space between Major League Baseball stadiums.
