Air Traffic Worldwide

Plotting the flight paths of airplane traffic seems to be a new branch of data visualisation on its own. The most recent video doing the rounds is this one:

And here are couple from the vault.

Contrails maps the complete path that the plane has taken.

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Planefinder is a real time map of planes currently in the air.

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Both are powered using planefinder.net’s database, which it seems is powered by an army of aviation enthusiasts who like tracking airplanes.

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