Everyday 100,000 airline flights take place around the world. This means that every second there is a plane taking off from one of 3,275 airports on the planet.*Martin Grandjean a researcher from The University of Lausanne, Switzerland decided to analyze the network created by these flight routes.
He took a data from*OpenFlights.org*and generated a graph that visualizes*37.153 single flight routes. Martin points out that although global*transportation maps that represent the flight connections are beautiful pieces of art, they*do not represent the data itself, but rather some idea of the complexity and quantity.*We can read in a blog post.
This map*is an attempt*to make explicit the network behind air transport. The structure of the relationships has an impact on the spatial distribution of nodes in a graph. Let’s see how this landscape is reorganized without geographical constraints.*
The visualization has been created in*an open source graph visualization software: Gephi (gephi.org). It’s*not a GIS but it has some basic mapping functionality. The overall effect is truly amazing!
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