Planes and buses
Maps from James Davenport
First, the world’s airport runways (go to his site for all the details)
You can see which bits of central Australia have farms or mines. Another interesting feature is the chain of evenly-spaced runways across far northern Canada — the DEW line.
He also has a video showing locations of all the buses in Seattle, over a 24-hour period. Like Auckland, Seattle has a real-time bus location system. Unlike Auckland’s system it produces openly-accessible data.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »