Here’s a sneak preview of Flightmapping.com’s new route map concept. We’re still several weeks away from launch, but I wanted to flesh out the basic idea for a few of our contacts to look at and give us feedback.

A few quick notes:

• We have experimented on different versions of this map with and without the route lines. At the moment, we all think these maps are better off without.
• To test interactivity, hover over a UK or Irish airport (origin) or over any airport in the Middle East (destination) – e.g. hover over LHR (Heathrow) or DXB (Dubai).
• This is not 100% accurate for either routes or city codes – I have just done this from my head.
• The next test version will be fully accurate, and I expect to put this up in a week or so.
• This has been done with airport codes. It would be easy to adapt to one big letter per city (eg L for London, D for Dubai). To have the full name, the dots would need to be pin-sized – we will put up a version with full names, but I don’t expect it to be the route we’ll take.
• Although we plan to show either 3 letter airport codes or 1 letter city abbreviations, we will include a static version of the map which does have the full names
• Users can always scan round to get the name of any cities they don’t know.
• Oh, and by the way, we’re still looking for answers to our “guess the city” picture – and no, it is NOT Brasilia!
• See also our simplified city maps, as we’ve put on our flights to Cairo page.

OK then, here goes: [1000x1000px half size] [2000x2000px full size]

 

 

Based on an original idea for “Chess Board World Maps” by & (C) James Avery 2008. Routes map (C) 2009 Flightmapping Ltd