Eclectic Technology

This site not only allows you to look at the lights across the earth at night, but also to drill down to specific areas, and to see a map image and then overlay the night view.
This map is a great way to explore population across the world. What do the night lights tell us?
According to the website the images were taken over nine days in April 2012 and thirteen days in October 2012. To get the clarity required took 312 orbits. For more information check out the website.

An interactive map of the distribution of national heritages across the U.S. See the most predominant ethnic groups, explore the county by county data for each background or compare two ancestries.

Have you wondered about relationships between various Internet entitities? The Internet Map is an amazing look at "350,000 websites based on their popularity and relativity." You can look at the mega-sites or the small ones that surround the large ones. The designer of this map, Rusian Enikeev said "The Internet map is a bi-dimensional presentation of links between websites on the Internet. Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle..."

To go directly to the map: http://internet-map.net/.