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national flights are timed to arrive at domestic hubs early morning to en-
sure connections. The map includes a 24 hour time schema, a day/night
colour scheme and colour coding for each of the Alliance flights.
Figure 8
shows the high-volume activity in Europe at around noon, whilst the
Americas and eastern Asia, Australasia and Oceania has little activity,
except intercontinental flights undertaking their long-haul travel.
Figure 8:
Star Alliance global view of air travel. Source:
http://star-alliance-screen-saver-62.de.joosoft.com/resource/screens/91/9100/68315.jpg
6.3 Self-generated maps
Paul Butler, a
Facebook
intern, developed a self-generated map package
using data from the social network site. It show the connections between
'friends' and, in so doing, a map of the world (via Facebok connected
friends's vectors) was generated. About the results he said …“Not only
were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as
