This map represents a layout of Old, England and its surrounding areas. The map is very simplistic, it doesn't display any "typical" geographical aspects of a map; that is it lacks mountain ranges (if any). The map also portrays all major highways through major cities, as well as railroads and metro systems. Major airports are also shown along with docks near Liverpool, Hull, and Grimsby. After looking at the scale on this map, it is interesting to see that the width of Northern England (this map) is only about 150 miles wide. It's also intriguing to see the way the highways and railroads are constructed. Highway M60 around Manchester, displays almost a circular path, such as roads you would typically call "roundabouts." I personally thought that it wouldn't be efficient for highways, or major roads such as this one, to turn around in a circular path.
This map displays the airport and airplane routes in a global scheme. This data comes from the OpenFlights Airports Database as of October 2009. As one can see there is a huge convergence and density of flights and airport traffic in a majority of the cities in Western Europe, as well as East Coast of the United States; this would probably have much to do with cities such as London, Germany, New York, and Chicago. It's interesting to see that in South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, the majority of their airport traffic comes from the border cities. Especially central Russia where air traffic is diverged to the brim of its borders. Especially in the 2nd map displaying all the routes with green lines, one can really see the amount of traffic driven to these major cities.
In this map it portrays the oil routes between Turkey, Russia and Iran and surrounding areas. The map displays the individual country's routes, as well as refineries where many routes come across. It also shows the petroleum mines, which from the map we can see that a majority of these mines are located in Iraq and Iran. What's interesting to see is that Russia is practically the only country of these three to travel great distances across sea in their transportation for oil. Also for refineries and transportation from Southern Russia and Northern Turkey, it is much more convenient to transport oil across the Black Sea then to go about it by land.
