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Subject:        RE: Air Traffic Worldwide map - no polar flights
Date:   Tue, 7 Oct 2008 09:43:59 -0400
From:   Grabach, Kenneth A. Mr. <[log in to unmask]>
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It seems to me that this animation doesn't allow for the flights reaching their destinations (and thus ending).  They all sort of fill up in Europe and North America, like ants unable to continue their march.  100,000 (though a huge number) flights spread over the world in a 24 hour period cannot possibly fill up two continents as fully ans this 'simulation' suggests.  This is rather the Flying Dutchman version of airline flight.

Ken Grabach                         <[log in to unmask]>
Maps Librarian                         Phone: 513-529-1726
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, Ohio  45056  USA

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Subject:        Re: Air Traffic Worldwide map - no polar flights
Date:   Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:02:21 -0500
From:   James R. Carter <[log in to unmask]>
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Ah, yes, this is an interesting map.  But note that the flights are
plotted on a cylindrical projection centered on the equator.  I see
that no flights on their animated map go over the Arctic.  What
happened to the shortest routes on a spherical Earth?

Jim Carter

At 10/6/2008, you wrote:
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>Subject:        FW: This is kinda interesting !!
>Date:   Sat, 4 Oct 2008 07:45:54 -0500
>From:   Angie
>To:     'Maps-L' <[log in to unmask]>
>
>Someone mailed this to me at home over the weekend and I thought I'd
>share it with you all.
>
>http://videos.komando.com/2008/10/03/air-traffic-worldwide/
>
>
>Angie


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