This article was published on February 18, 2015

This visualization of the world’s airline flight traffic is mesmerizing


This visualization of the world’s airline flight traffic is mesmerizing

It’s easy to forget just how many planes are in the skies above us. Flight Stream, a startling WebGL visualization of global flight data, is a good reminder. Created by San Francisco-based British developer, Callum Prentice, it maps flights as pulsing dots on a zoomable, rotatable world.

The Web app allows you to change the speed and size of how flights are represented and the opacity of the trails they leave as they criss-cross the globe.

Prentice says the map currently shows routes based on data from Open Flights but hopes to use live info in a future version. Devs can take a look at his code and some other cool projects on GitHub.

Flight Stream

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