Comment from Frank Taylor
Time: August 4, 2007, 2:47 pm

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

Comment from PenguinOpus
Time: August 4, 2007, 3:23 pm

James,

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

Comment from María Dulce
Time: August 4, 2007, 4:09 pm

Indeed Frank

Congratulations (again) James, another great one

Comment from James
Time: August 5, 2007, 10:21 am

Thanks Folks

I’ll bump SFO up to the top of the to-do list.

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Time: August 6, 2007, 2:14 am

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Comment from Phil Verney
Time: August 6, 2007, 1:42 pm

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!!!

Comment from Carsten Bauer
Time: August 28, 2007, 4:34 pm

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

Comment from Jack Powers
Time: September 2, 2007, 9:50 pm

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.

Comment from Matthew Holden
Time: September 10, 2007, 1:15 pm

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!

Comment from ibrahim
Time: November 13, 2007, 4:21 am

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

Comment from bhanupratap,india
Time: November 15, 2007, 5:53 am

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

Comment from Dave Brodeur
Time: November 21, 2007, 11:18 pm

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)

Comment from Ian D Samson
Time: December 5, 2007, 11:35 am

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

Comment from barry milliken
Time: December 30, 2007, 4:42 pm

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.

Comment from James
Time: December 31, 2007, 1:10 pm

Barry,

To run this, you need to use the time control at the top of the Google Earth screen, not the play button in the left side-panel.

If you can’t see it, you might need to download a more recent version of Google Earth.

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Time: January 3, 2008, 12:15 pm

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Comment from loos
Time: February 5, 2008, 10:30 pm

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?

Comment from Dane Thomas
Time: February 21, 2008, 9:27 am

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.

Comment from Nigel
Time: February 28, 2008, 5:40 am

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?

Comment from James
Time: February 28, 2008, 1:33 pm

Nigel - when you open the file there should time controller at the top of the screen:

Click the play button on that.

If it’s not there you need to either switch it on - ‘Show time’, in the ‘view’ menu, or more likely upgrade to the latest version of Google Earth.

Comment from rich
Time: March 30, 2008, 12:19 am

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

Comment from bob boldi
Time: April 8, 2008, 8:51 pm

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 ?

Comment from Loos
Time: April 9, 2008, 11:16 am

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!

Comment from Lorenzo
Time: April 13, 2008, 1:18 am

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

Comment from syzygy
Time: April 29, 2008, 7:50 am

A dramatic graphical depiction of flights above US was created by Aaron Koblin:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080429.html
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Comment from Julia
Time: June 20, 2008, 11:13 pm

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.

Comment from Michael
Time: August 7, 2008, 7:26 pm

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