How long does it take to construct a three dimensional map of the known universe, out to 320 million lightyears? About ten years on our current technology. The all-important third dimension depended upon the ability to map redshifts amongst all of the imaged galaxies, relating them to each other as well as to earth.
One of the first comments on the article asks where is the "You are here" arrow. Within the immensity of the map, earth and indeed, the Milky Way are lost. Just as Moore's law is an exponential trajectory inwards, one can map humanity's sense of significance against the scale of the universe. As the universe inflated to cosmic, our centrality in nature plummeted to irrelevance, indifference and insignificance.
