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Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

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Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

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Post by jakub_g »

If you're interested in the subject, let me introduce you to GCMap.

GCMap can plot a line between any two IATA airport codes; actually you can put arbitrary number of pairs comma separated; and best of all, they can be passed as a URL param. For example: `JFK-LHR,LHR-CDG,CDG-FRA`

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=JFK-LHR,LHR-CDG,CDG-FRA

I track my own flights by sending an email to myself with a GCMap URL every now and then.

Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

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Post by piker »

So cool! I assumed that pilots just generally flew the same hops back and forth over and over, but it seems at first glance that there is actually a lot of variety.

Does it make you nervous when you have to land in a new place for the first time?

Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

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Post by HeavenFox »

Very cool! As a semi-frequent flyer I am also passionate about logging every flight I have taken. I have been using OpenFlights for the last five years but the constant bugs always bugged me :) This year I finally decided to build my own: https://jetsetter.quest

Re: Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights

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Post by kccqzy »

jakub_g wrote: post #121

If you're interested in the subject, let me introduce you to GCMap. GCMap can plot a line between any two IATA airport codes; actually you can put arbitrary number of pairs comma separated; and best of all, they can be passed as a URL param. For example: `JFK-LHR,LHR-CDG,CDG-FRA` http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=JFK-LHR,LHR-CDG,CDG-FRA I track my own flights by sending an email to myself with a GCMap URL every now and th…

GCMap doesn't have a whole lot of different map projections to choose from. Having more than one pair on a single map will result in a pretty bad map projection. That's my biggest complaint. They really need to add more better projections such as Mollweide, Winkel Tripel, Robinson, etc. Or they should just have a globe.
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