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Air Routes over the U.S.
While working on a GIS project for Backpacker Magazine I had the opportunity to construct a schematic map of airline routes to and from U.S. airports. The result is a very fascinating map which dramatically shows how busy our skies are, especially across the eastern and southern sections of our country. What other patterns do you see?
Airline routes over the continental U.S. in January 2011
[...] the Lower 48 in part by distance not merely from a road, but from flight paths. Jacob developed a pretty awesome map of the country’s commercial flight paths, and he has just published it on his new geography [...]
I’m hardly surprised that some of the emptiest places are in the Dakotas. But who expected the northern California and southern Oregon coasts? Anyway, this time North America, next time the world?
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