President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016

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Post by espek07 » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 6:07 AM UTC

President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016
arcgis.com

Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016

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Post by smcmurtry » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 7:34 AM UTC

I'm curious why this doesn't show any flights to Hawaii - is the map only of official visits? Obama takes an annual vacation there[1].

[1] https://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/agenda-hawaii.ht...

Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016

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Post by bobf » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 7:36 AM UTC

smcmurtry wrote: post #2

I'm curious why this doesn't show any flights to Hawaii - is the map only of official visits? Obama takes an annual vacation there[1]. [1] https://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/agenda-hawaii.ht...

Hawaii isn't considered international, from the perspective of the US - it's domestic. Notice that there also is not a trip to Alaska shown, though he did visit Alaska. (And, trips in the mainland US are not shown either.)

Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 7:44 AM UTC

smcmurtry wrote: post #2

I'm curious why this doesn't show any flights to Hawaii - is the map only of official visits? Obama takes an annual vacation there[1]. [1] https://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/agenda-hawaii.ht...

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Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016

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Post by kobeya » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 7:47 AM UTC

smcmurtry wrote: post #2

I'm curious why this doesn't show any flights to Hawaii - is the map only of official visits? Obama takes an annual vacation there[1]. [1] https://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/agenda-hawaii.ht...

Hawaii is part of the United States...

Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016

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Post by shanselman » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 7:54 AM UTC

smcmurtry wrote: post #2

I'm curious why this doesn't show any flights to Hawaii - is the map only of official visits? Obama takes an annual vacation there[1]. [1] https://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/agenda-hawaii.ht...

And to be clear, that website is a weird parody. It's not an official anything.

Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016

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Post by k1lly » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 8:00 AM UTC

President Obama visited Moscow as he met with President Medvedev and President Putin.

This is at least innacurate.

Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016

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Post by eps » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 8:02 AM UTC

Apparently in 2009 Obama visited Moscow and managed to meet both president Putin and president Medvedev. Granted, it is sometimes hard to remember who of these two is a president at any given moment, but a two-president state is a bit pushing it.

Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016

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Post by imron » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 8:07 AM UTC

Here's another nifty visualisation - this time with drone strikes:

http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/

Re: President Obama's International Visits from 2009 to 2016

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Post by thinkloop » Mon, Jan 16, 2017, 8:08 AM UTC

shanselman wrote: post #6

smcmurtry wrote: post #2

I'm curious why this doesn't show any flights to Hawaii - is the map only of official visits? Obama takes an annual vacation there[1]. [1] https://whitehouse.gov1.info/blog/blog_post/agenda-hawaii.ht...

And to be clear, that website is a weird parody. It's not an official anything.

What's a weird parody about it? That's different from being unofficial.