Time lapse video of global air traffic over 24 hours

That is amazing. I like how there is a visible correlation between the time of day and the flow of traffic.

I don't know what is the value, but it certainly looks nice.

http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/FPWeb_Final_3...

You can see this live at FlightAware.com. You can watch specific airports, flights, aircraft, etc...

http://flightaware.com/live/

The video I really wanted to see was "this" on 9/11. I wonder if it looked similar to what happens if you 'interrupt' a stream of ants and the 'panic' sets in.

Bad title. Time lapse implies a series of photographs, whereas this is a visualization of flight path data. Still very cool.

Really cool. You can see waves of red-eye flights arriving just as the sun comes up.

Those interested should get hold of a copy of episode 1 of BBC's 'Britain from Above', it's a whole show visualizing everything from airtraffic to mobile phone usage.

That is super cool! Esp seeing the day move!

Edward Tufte would love it

reminds me of an ant farm....

Interestingly, the pattern of busy areas correlate with the world cities from which my website get the most traffic. It's a website about science and programming.

The rest of the world (mostly Africa and some parts of central Asia and north-western South America) doesn't seem to use internet much, neither abundant flights, neither perhaps population that can access those (or population at all).