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Great work James! Your skills at creating effective animations using KML just keep getting better!

James,

This one is especially amazing (I’m abusing superlatives here). Is there any chance you could add San Francisco’s flights?

Indeed Frank

Congratulations (again) James, another great one

James,

This is fantastic!!! Such a different and powerful visualization - congrats!

Please submit this to http://earth.google.com/gallerysubmit/ - This “unusual” use will be great to show.

Keep up the cool stuff!!!

This is an amazing piece of work. I would like to do something similar but have no idea where to start. It would only involve about 30-40 flights originating from Perth Australia and returning.
Can you please give me any help? Thanks

I thought of the scene from Wargames the minute your animation started! (I always loved the names of the WOPPR war game scenarios: “Albanian Decoy,” “Portugal Revolution,” “Chad Alert.” Someone thought up a lot of background material that got only microseconds of screen time.

Great work. We live in a Golden Age.

Really impressive stuff James. Congratulations on one of the best flight route animations I’ve seen. Look forward to more great stuff from you.

PS - Wargames it is!

Hi,
This is interesting….If I want to draw a path between two points, how can I make it curved? I need your help please.

Thanks,
Ibrahim

tremendus,fantestic visualization, and now i am intrested how you done this.and congratulation for this animation.

What you have is great, but You probably would want to include more USA airports as ATL International (Atlanta, GA) STL (Saint Louis-Lambert International (Saint Louis, MO), Logan (Boston MA) Laguadia (NY), and Dulles (Washington DC)

Well done for showing the USA, but what about flights from other places around the globe?

Tried Flights animation, but I get an error when I click on “play”:
“There are no selected placemarks for the animation”

I’ve tried to select some of the cities but nothing seems to work.

The video looks great, but where did you get the data for this? I am trying to do something similar, but for all european airports. Would you know where I could get the data? Without paying too much for it?

Great job!

Of course, it makes sense for you to simply follow the heaviest traffic volume, but if you are looking for input to help you prioritize future additions I’d love to see London and Stockholm added.

I can’t make it work … I get the message,

“There are currently no Placemarks selected for the tour. Please activate the checkbox for those Placemarks you wish to visit and restart the tour. You can also select a folder and play a tour of all its items whether or not they are checked.”

Huh?

So, in plain English, what do I do?

I’d like to see what international airline routes pass over my community on google earth. That would be really interesting to know.

unless i am not viewing this properly, it seems that the
aircraft reach altitiudes of 100’s of miles above the earth -

– not very accurate - why ?

The video looks great, but where did you get the data for this? I am trying to do something similar, but for all european airports. Would you know where I could get the data? Without paying too much for it?

Please help me out!

why the time zone doesnt work? I have got 1 Jan 2007 to 2 Jan 2007…why we can’t change to today?

A dramatic graphical depiction of flights above US was created by Aaron Koblin:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080429.html
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This is a wonderful feature– I hope you’ll consider updating it though. There are many new routes from New York’s JFK airport now that are not represented in the animation, such Kiev, Accra, Cape Town, etc.

I am sure this is true for other airports as well, I just happen to be most familiar with that one.

This is terrific — Emirates will be operating LAX-DXB in October — would love to see that flight path as i’m flying it in Dec. Is there any way i could add Dubai to the tool in the interim?

Cheers

Hello there, I’m literally dying to know what airlines fly over the Shetland Islands… I’ve just seen 3 fly over my home in a succession of 5 minutes, all heading north !! Is there any way you can find out?

How do you get a LineString in kml to draw out over time instead of all at once? I can’t find it in Google’s kml reference or anywhere else, for that matter.

My guess is that you would use a TimeSpan kml section. I tried that, but the entire line segment would show up at the begin time, then disappear at the end time. I would like my LineString to behave like your flight path simulation–draw out up to a specified time and then stay there. But how?

Any chance you can add MSP? Minneapolis is a busy hub for Northwest and KLM, and soon to be Delta.

Hi,

really great animation. Can you answer me a question please?
I would like to have such cool Great Circle (without animation), because i would like to set up a path for all my destinations i have visited!
Or maybe there is someone else who could give me a hint to achieve this!

Wishes
Martin

any chance u can do heathrow and other airports worldwide

Hi James
It’s a great and probably long time job.
How did you implement all the coordinates ? By hand ?
How did you write the Placemarks ? All by hand ?
Do you maybe know some tools and automatism to find the coordinates along a path in GE and write them into the Placemarks ?
Many thanks for your tips.
Best regards
Poldi

Cool how can i get this on my website?????

Hi James,
Nice but how do I get rid of it (at least visually)? I am stuck with a visualization of the beginning of the flight path even when the slider is all the way to the left. So I always have colorful curved stems sticking out of every major U.S. cities.
Help!
Thanks
Bertrand

James - fantastic work. Thanks for making so much information available and for fielding input.

I’m trying to do something similar with timespan, i.e., the automation of lines so that they connect 2 locations (numerous pairs). It should be simpler than the flight path animations because I don’t need to worry about height attributes as it will all be clamped to ground.

Can you share a formula for splitting a line, i.e., obtaining multiple points along a straight line?

Many thanks and best wishes!
David

James outstanding job! What formula did you use to calculate the elevations along the flight path? Really wonderful work.

Hello, I need your help.

I have to make animation exactly like yours, but for Slovakia flights.
It is a point of my final bachelor work at my school.
Please could you send me something to help? I was searching over the internet a long time, but I didnt find how to make that KML…. I realy need it to finish my last year at university and I have a lot of troubles to find out how to make it. I am not a programator, so it is harder for me..
If you could help me with, please answer me to my mailbox.

Thank You
Best regards
Tomas Fecko, Slovakia, Technical University Kosice

I have been inspired by your work to build a XLS spreadsheet that takes timetable data from the OAG timetable database and creates schedule “waves” that fit with the “sun” function in GE.

However what I have done is nothing compared to this:

http://www.fubiz.net/2009/06/23/realtime-3d-airtraffic/

Hello,
I would be grateful if you could advise me how to track a non stop flight from San Francisco to London Heathrow.
Thanks very much.

Hey James

I know this is pretty amateur but I’m wondering what program you used to make this graphic? I really like and am interested in doing something similar just as a spare time project.

Hello James,
This file it’s amazing !! I love that.
I have in excel airport coordinates all over the world and its easy for me pick flight information about all over company.
But i would like to know how animated my flights.
I know how to put in file kml. I use this website to convert xls for kml http://www.earthpoint.us/ExcelToKml.aspx
If you have any tip for me, please send to me.

Thanks !!!

I would like to know if these patterns include the worldwide military jets that lay chemtrails all over
America and the Earth?

Hi James - How do you draw the lines for each placement?

Is this a KML feature? Can I write the KML to draw the lines from point A to point B?

Thanks