/airport-compass

Visualizing airport's traffic on a compass

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The Airport Compass

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Inspiration

3 years ago I got inspired by a very interesting figure published on a paper by @gboeing called Urban spatial order: street network orientation, configuration, and entropy

Figure

This figure represents the distribution of the orientation of every major street of a city.

I like how it gives a quick representation of each city's layout and how evident are the various levels of entropy.

Shortly after seeing this chart I immediately thought of replicating this view but for airports' traffic worldwide.

Sources

This repository is using two major open-source datasets:

  • The airlines routes data comes from @jpatokal's OpenFlights repository

  • The airports data is from @davidmegginson's OurAirports repository

Dependencies

All dependencies are listed on requirements.txt