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Flights to Rome
- nickthemagicman 8y agoMy Android back button and this page did not get along.
- ssijak 8y agoIt is screwed on the desktop too.
- broabprobe 8y agoSame on iOS
- ilikehurdles 8y agoAlso iOS. Can’t stand sites that do this. I have 5 entries in my history for the same page and all I did was scroll.
- gustavorg 8y agoSame on Windows and Chrome
- demygale 8y agoCame to this thread just to make sure complaints about navigation were the top comments. This is how I know I’ve found my people.
- black_puppydog 8y ago#embraceYourBubble ;)
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoNoScript FTW.
- devy 8y agoSame on macOS with Chrome
- CodeSheikh 8y agoTrust me, you are not doing justice to these visuals by browsing this site on a phone.
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- estsauver 8y agoI didn't see any link to anything of the sort, but I'd love to have a large print of one of these maps.
- pjmlp 8y agoThe link to the 3D visualization is quite obvious.
- estsauver 8y agoYah, but I don't really want to steal their work without their permission...
- superflyguy 8y agoComparing printing out part of a web page for your own personal use with stealing something is just odd. What if you frame it and turn it round to face the wall when you have guests?
- anc84 8y agoIt is not forbidden nor "stealing" to print out for personal use.
- squeaky-clean 8y agoDoes it actually say that on the site? I can't find anything saying so.
- freehunter 8y agoIn the US it would be considered fair use if you print a website's content for personal use. Maybe you'd want to use the laws in the country that produced this content (Germany), in which case I believe it'd fall under freie Benutzung. I'm not an expert in German copyright law, but it seems to me that even in Germany, if you're printing content for personal use and not distributing it or selling it or modifying it, you're in the clear.
- defenestration 8y agoFrom the same makers the Roads to Rome is also interesting: http://roadstorome.moovellab.com/countries http://roadstorome.moovellab.com/countries Try step 3. Explore. Search for your city with the magnifying glass, and see where you can walk, bike or drive in 15 to 30 minutes from your house or office.
- Uberphallus 8y agoWow, it's taking very long to compute (server side I imagine), easy on it future clickers.
- ajmurmann 8y agoReally cool idea, but boy is that tool hard to use. I first ended up with a point A and B and no obvious way to get rid of B. The worst thing is that it keeps rubber banding back to Hamburg for some reason.
- klez 8y agoA bit off topic but why did you have to fill my browser history while I scroll through a page? I don't know if this is happening only to my browser (Firefox nightly on Android) but it's very annoying.
- dbatten 8y agoSame problem on Firefox for Windows here. To make matters even worse, there was a bug where the back button just kept me cycling between two different sections of the page. I kept hopping back and forth no matter how many times I hit back, and could never go back to HN. Please, please, don't break the user experience this way.
- anc84 8y agoYou can hold the back button until it extends a menu that lets you go back more places. Still not enough for some sites but often a good rescue.
- drsopp 8y agoAlso on Safari (iPhone).
- walterbell 8y agoThanks, will avoid visiting this site.
- maaaats 8y agoWho cares what you read or not read?
- foobarandgrill 8y agoWhy should the rest of the world care about anything anyone ever says
- freehunter 8y agoI would still visit the site, I think the analysis and graphs are interesting. If you open the link in a new tab, it doesn't really matter what the site does with your back button.
- snambi 8y agoNice images. But the author has no idea what he is trying to say.
- madaxe_again 8y agoI’ve been collecting GPS tracks of all the commercial flights I’ve been on for the past several years, using a little pocket receiver. It’s been pretty interesting data, from seeing how ATC works differently from country to country (China is nuts - a flight from Beijing to Hong Kong will have hundreds of course changes to minimise overflight of populated areas), to how airports stack traffic, to where GPS jammers are being operated - many large airports seem to have a curtain of interference, presumably to stop drone intrusions. It’s also interesting seeing things like routes dog-legging around Ukraine, or ascending to a very high level to overfly Afghanistan - apparently pot-shots by armed groups are of not insignificant concern. So far it’s only a few hundred flights, but it’s still pretty neat.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoNeat indeed; you seem to have discovered lots of interesting tidbits. Of all you mention, two are extremely surprising to me, and I'm not even sure which is more - China course corrections and GPS jamming. The former sounds straight out of Cold War counterespionage playbook. In this day and age, why would they bother? The latter... again, are drones really that big of an issue to justify the jammers (and, presumably, legal clearance for jamming GPS)?
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI'm not sure that it's fair to infer that China's course corrections are to avoid espionage. Google Maps satellite view will show you far more, for far less money. And military areas are of far more concern for espionage than cities. I suspect the reroutes are more for noise reasons, though I am not certain.
- bobthepanda 8y agoMost Chinese airspace is managed by the Chinese military, and military flights take priority. So that may be a reason why as well. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/10/30/why-china-leads-the-world-in-flight-delays https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/10/30/why-chin...
- callumprentice 8y agoThis is utterly beautiful - thank you. I made a very primitive interactive (WebGL) version a couple of years ago (not going to link here - always feels rude to drop links in someone else's post) but this takes it to a whole new level and then some. I love all the analysis too as well as the gorgeous visuals. I'd definitely purchase a print for my office wall if you ever decide to offer that.
- fareesh 8y agoThis webpage breaks the back button on Android Chrome. Couldn't come back to HN
- mattnewton 8y agoOn all browsers (with history api’s) most likely, looks like they are multiple entries without replacing one.
- cliffy 8y agoAs you scroll through the site it seems to re-set the current page for each section, which was totally unexpected behavior to me.
- parhamn 8y agoLikely a history.pushState vs history.replaceState bug (they want the latter)
- TomK32 8y agoWhy would you want to leave in the first place?
- ejoiii 8y agoSo many of the top comments on HN posts are complaints about website functionality rather than the content of the site. I'm all for not breaking standards but sometimes it gets old when the top content is a negative content about the use of javascript or ux. Bracing for downvotes
- DanBC 8y agoYou're right, and it's a long running problem. See what dang says here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238739 > A reader emailed to complain about how this and other HN discussions often become derailed by off-topic carping about blog design. I agree completely. Could there be a more classic form of bikeshedding? It would seem parodic if it weren't sadly real. This has become more of a thing on HN lately. It needs to become less of a thing. > I don't mean to pick on you personally, or just on this one comment. (Your second sentence alone, by the way, would have been a helpful contribution.) The problem is the tedious stampedes such comments spawn.
- anjc 8y agoOh man, those tilt-shift 3d visualisations...drool
- djohnston 8y agothere are a few UI issues with the website itself, but these maps are quite beautiful.
- Grue3 8y agoSomehow I doubt anyone is flying to Rome via Iceland. Even if there's no direct flight, people would go through London, Paris, Madrid or another big hub.
- refoundglory 8y agoWhy? Iceland Air offers some of the cheapest flights across the Atlantic - I've stopped there on my way to Paris several times. And you can take a few days as a stopover for nothing, which is a nice way to arrive at your final destination already unjetlagged.
- mrunkel 8y agoWith the great circle route it's not that far out of the way (especially from the west coast of the US) and Iceland Air has some great deals. If you spend a night in Iceland, you can get some crazy cheap flights.
- Grue3 8y agoOk, but did you make a stop at Baffin Island like the map suggests? Also one airline couldn't possibly carry all traffic from the Western US to Europe. And Keflavik International Airport doesn't look like it can carry all this traffic either.
- BenjiWiebe 8y agoI was looking into some transatlantic flights a few days ago. The cheapest one had a 20 hour layover in Iceland, which for a vacation type/no rush flight would be awesome.
- maym86 8y agoIn the first image why are all the flights from Madagascar stopping at an intermediate island between it and mainland Africa?
- Grue3 8y agoBecause the algorithm seems to be wrong. It prefers to make several small "hops" over long direct flights. For example Phoenix - Albuquerque - Denver - Winnipeg(?) - Iqualuit - somewhere in Greenland - Reykjavik - Glasgow seems like a very popular route and the whole West US is using it to reach Rome.