Europe's ash crisis visualized

Posted By Joshua Keating Monday, April 26, 2010 - 2:58 PM Share

Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

The British Firm ITO, which specialized in vizualizations of transport networks, put together this very cool animation showing European air traffic from April 16-21, as the ash cloud from Iceland's volcanic eruption was lifting and air traffic was returning to normal. There are a few holes in the data -- much of France for instance -- but you still get the picture. 

Hat tip: Maria Popova via Twitter. 

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DAVID KENNER

3:08 PM ET

April 26, 2010

O.M.G.

That's pretty awesome.

 

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