The web trend map version 4, by Information Architects. It plots the leading names and domains of the Internet onto the Tokyo Metro map, providing a visual understanding of the virtual reality that defines Internet as the space of networks. The Tokyo Metro map (top image) is a visual representation of a very concrete thing: trains and tracks and platforms and millions of people next to each other, sweating, laughing or trying to read their newspaper. The web trend map puts lines and nodes to the test of showing how the virtual works, how it is linked and how it is navigated. Mapping is a form of survival, an attempt to make concrete what was unknown and threatening. Mapping is a process of domestication, and the formal quality of maps has to do with the complexity and the completeness of their messages to the user. This does not mean maps need to have too much information; on the contrary, like in most processes of form making, true sophistication comes with the processes of editing and simplification.
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