Edge.org is featuring a wonderful collection of maps, including this Flavor Network by Yong-Yeol_Ahn, a postdoctoral researcher for the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University (click for a high res view that will allow you to explore).
Or consider this map of the oldest words in our lexicon, by Mark Pagel, Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Reading University, England.
And consider this map illustrating path dependence, a 1901 map of the Internet.
Many more maps to see here, courtesy of Edge.
An interactive map is worth 1,000 pictures.
http://www.arcgis.com/home/gallery.html
http://www.arcgis.com/home/
http://www.esri.com/software/mapping_for_everyone…
This is great! I've been too long away from Edge. Thanks!