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\"Cartographic<\/a>The Future of Mapping was the theme of a Cartographic Summit<\/a> jointly held by the International Cartographic Association (ICA)<\/a> and Esri<\/a> at Esri’s headquarters in Redlands (California). The aim of the event was to examine new directions in mapping in a time at which mapping is evolving at a rapid pace, enabling us to communicate in new ways, analyze important issues, and understand our world. Among the keynote speakers was graphics designer Nigel Holmes<\/a> whom I had a chance to work with several years ago while making some contributions for Lonely Planet’s travel-infographics book How to land a jumbo jet<\/a>. Meeting him in person at last reminded me to put online the last of the four cartograms<\/a> that I made for the book.
\nThe following map is a gridded cartogram visualisation of global flight tracks taken from the OpenFlights<\/a> database. The map distorts the land area by the number of flights that pass a certain space which leads to these ‘ploughing patterns’ over some areas where are airplanes basically just passing by, such as in the western part of Australia where planes simply fly over on their way to the most populated southeast of the country. The colours in the map relate to the Worldmapper colour scheme (explained here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"Gridded<\/a>
\n(click for larger version)<\/a><\/p>\n


\nHow to land a jumbo jet<\/em> can be ordered from the Lonely Planet website<\/a>. Here are some examples from the book:<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
\nDownload a pdf preview of the book<\/a> \"pdf<\/p>\n

A modified version of this map was published in How to land a jumbo jet<\/a> by Lonely Planet<\/a>. The content on this page has been created by Benjamin Hennig using data by OpenFlights<\/a>. Please contact me<\/a> for further details on the terms of use.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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