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On yesterday's show, author Mike Idov gave us the skinny on U.S. flight delays. Now take a peek at what all that air traffic looks like.
Check out the rest of them here.
11:19 AM ET | 11- 7-2007 | permalink
What is the music in the background?
fantastic...I'd love to have this as a live link on my PC desktop as I work, with the ability to zoom in or out...maybe zoom in enough to peek into the windows..ha ha.
deeply beautiful?
i think the music is by yasuhiro tsuchiya / unplug ( www.yasuhirotsuchiya.com )
Im an air traffic controller. I work that traffic 5 days a week. I always have a headache.
I'd love to see one with European aviation, anyone have a link??
There is no live link for the desktop, but the designer's website has a wallpaper for daily traffic
the animations are nice, the reality though...
Where can I get that soundtrack?
Carbon footprint...ANYONE???!!!!!
It looks like a nerve cell
All these commints are dubm!
I'm a pilot and I fly every day, but seeing this beautiful network... made me think of art and of ATC who actually create this amazing piece of art :)
To all the air traffic controller... Excellent work ;)
OK, there appears to be a destination almost due west of San Francisco, but NE of Hawaii. What is it? It looks like it's on one of the great circle routes to South America.
A nerve cell, Matthew? Dendrites maybe, but I'm just not seeing a clearly defined soma or axon here.
yes, carbon footprint! carbon is BAD, after all (*cough*, you know what organic is, right?). let's all take a 3 day journey by train between LA-NY! that's WAY better for the environment.
A more complete picture of air traffic is available in the Atlas of Air Traffic over North America:
http://maps.unomaha.edu/AnimatedFlightAtlas/
The atlas contains 70 animations of air traffic, divided by city, airline, airplane, and region. A sample animation of 24 hour air traffic for Atlanta is available on youtube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFl_u9kIk6c
A higher-res version that requires the DivX plug-in is here:
http://maps.unomaha.edu/AnimatedFlightAtlas/ExampleAnimation.html
The 70 animations in the atlas take up 1.6GB. The atlas is provided on a DVD-ROM, and includes a 40+ page booklet on air traffic.
to josef: aviation accounts for only 3% of all world carbon emissions. get over that bulls**t! :)
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