When Maps & Art combine in Las Vegas - the McCarran International Airport web portal

This "cut ad paste" highlight of the ArcGIS Server Showcase took me to McCarran International Airport's Interactive map portal.  

Map Portal Landing page

The Flex application has a clean interface with the standard "point/click/zoom" functionality.

Terminal Zoom

 Certain "sub-header zooms" bring you to focus on particular areas of the airport, such as a terminal or parking area.

Pop-ups for terminal POIs

Each "zoom section" enables points of interest with additional pop-ups of relevant information.

Parking assistance info

I particularly like to pop-up assistance via my mobile device - relatively speaking the pages loaded just fine from my smart phone.

Menu options

The airport has a separate portal highlighting a children art mural initiative.  The photo mosaic works can we search by location or child creator.

Children Art locator

Locations for Art Murals

Full credits to ESRI, McCarran International Airport and Robert Silvers for the accomplishments displayed.

Mapping Changes in Airspace - Volcanic Impact on European Air Traffic

I though this was a fascinating display of airspace and the recent Icelandic volcano's impact of European air traffic.


Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo.



A quick "cut & paste" from the site:"... A visualisation of the northern European airspace returning to use after being closed due to volcanic ash. Due to varying ash density across Europe, the first flights can be seen in some areas on the 18th and by the 20th everywhere is open.


The flight data is courtesy of www.flightradar24.com and covers a large fraction of Europe. There are a few gaps (most noticeably France) and no coverage over the Atlantic, but the picture is still clear.
The map data is CC-by-SA www.openstreetmap.org and contributors.


This CC-by-SA visualisation was produced by www.itoworld.com with support from www.ideasintransit.org ..."

 

Air France Flight 447 - Google Earth Map

I found this Google Earth flight path representation of Air France Flight 447.



My wife is a Flight Attendant & I had a "start-up career deviation" in aviation, so I'm a biased source.

Please check out this one by 'rafaelds

overlay of a weather map at the time of the crash

I'm not going to comment on this one, other than to offer my condolences to the crew & passenger families - and recognize that "aviation people" are some of the best folk I have ever met & had the pleasure to work with....If you seek more info - View article...