A stunning series of visualisations, from the road and rail networks in South America above, to the air traffic routes over Eurasia and the atlantic below…

Pharand-Deschenes’ Anthropocene Mapping project marks the paths of human activity including roadways, railways, airway traffic, internet cables, electricity transmission lines, and underwater data cables. He acquired all his factual information from various US government agencies. The word “Anthropocene” is especially fitting for this piece of research because of the meaning behind the ancient Greek word is derived from – anthropos means “human being” and kainos means “new, current.” It is through the combination of these two words that scientist-cartographer is best able to categorize his maps under “the new human-dominated period of the Earth’s history.”

via My Modern Metropolis.