Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours

[alexwg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBwjQsOEeg

[chomchom]

That is amazing. I like how there is a visible correlation between the time of day and the flow of traffic.

[lbrandy → chomchom]

Yes, it's especially obvious in the Europe <-> US traffic. It's mostly one way, depending on the time of day.

[d0mine]

I don't know what is the value, but it certainly looks nice.

http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/FPWeb_Final_3...

[dcurtis]

You can see this live at FlightAware.com. You can watch specific airports, flights, aircraft, etc...

http://flightaware.com/live/

[boredguy8]

The video I really wanted to see was "this" on 9/11. I wonder if it looked similar to what happens if you 'interrupt' a stream of ants and the 'panic' sets in.

[river_styx]

Bad title. Time lapse implies a series of photographs, whereas this is a visualization of flight path data. Still very cool.

[tlrobinson]

Really cool. You can see waves of red-eye flights arriving just as the sun comes up.

[danw]

Those interested should get hold of a copy of episode 1 of BBC's 'Britain from Above', it's a whole show visualizing everything from airtraffic to mobile phone usage.

[danw → danw]

Show info at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00d23yx, preview clips at http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/visualisations... and a bittorrent copy is apparently available from MVGroup for those who don't have access to BBC iPlayer

[raheemm]

That is super cool! Esp seeing the day move!

[mixmax]

Edward Tufte would love it

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[KiwiNige]

reminds me of an ant farm....

[albertcardona]

Interestingly, the pattern of busy areas correlate with the world cities from which my website get the most traffic. It's a website about science and programming.

The rest of the world (mostly Africa and some parts of central Asia and north-western South America) doesn't seem to use internet much, neither abundant flights, neither perhaps population that can access those (or population at all).