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Friday afternoon fun - 24 hours of air traffic visualised

Friday, November 9th, 2007

If you wonder what happens if you “let your data free” - here is a nice visualisation taking US flight data and putting it on a map using tools such as Adobe After Effects and Maya.

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If you are an airline and are thinking about making use of this kind of thing for a promotion then you are too late - Star Alliance got there first (a few years ago).Take a look at the Star Alliance screensaver - it is great!

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Alex has previously started up a small tour operator (5 staff) and also worked for leading "dot coms", airlines, hotel chains and tour operators advising and project managing web, ecommerce and reservation system projects.

Alex is available for travel ecommerce consulting via Travel UCD. Travel UCD also operates TourCMS - a web based reservation system for small tour operators

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