Monster mashup: mapping every plane in the air

FlightAware slurps up more than 1GB a day in federal radar data in order to map, almost in realtime, every commercial flight in the US. Open source tools provide much of the site’s power, but its users provide the ingenuity.

Source: Ars Technica

Hat tip: BO

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