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I appreciate the effort to collect the data, but I think the rotating globe is an idea that looks cool, but makes the visualization harder to use. If I click on us-east-1, there's a 229ms line to...somewhere that I can't see. Meanwhile, I can't see the latency between us-east-1 and us-east-2.

Perhaps if you selected a datacenter, and it switched to a 2-d projection with that datacenter at the center of the map, it would be better?

Or perhaps augment the visualization with a table?



Author here - You can see the raw data as a table here: https://www.cloudping.co. Sometimes visualizations like this are a careful act of balancing practicality with cool-factor.


Winkel Tripel projection would mitigate this nicely.

(One of several options, though the best IMO.)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkel_tripel_projection>




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