I'd say resume working on it because this was one of the things that inspired me to put together conferenceroundup.com when I came across flightm8 on Google Maps Mania
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#72Great idea, I think it could be really useful. I'd like it even more if you decrease the focus on the giant map and instead have a little form like +--------------------------------+ | Leaving from: ______________ | | | | Going to: ______________ | | | | [Show me] | +--------------------------------+ Let me put in, for example, Vancouver, Canada and New York City Show me a mini map for my end points and let the rest…
+1 for ASCII art
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
yup, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I'll have to change the display from "airports in that country" to "airports within x miles", possible with a slider to adjust the radius.
You may want to leave it as an option. As I understand it, Europeans can travel freely within the EU much like Americans can travel freely between states; if an American is going to Austria, is it trivial to land in Slovakia and drive/take a train across the border? (I really don't know; haven't traveled internationally since I was a wee lad.)
if an American is going to Austria, is it trivial to land in Slovakia and drive/take a train across the border?
Yes, travel visas are Schengen-wide, only residency permits are handled on a per-country basis. There's also no border post to physically stop you crossing. It's more complicated when you stay within the EU but leave the Schengen area. People get bitten by this all the time when they book flights with a stop-over in a country for which they have no implicit right of transit (e.g.: the UK).