Hi guys,

Sam from FlightMemory here...

First of all - THANKS to KiwiFlyer for answering the question, where we seem to have not made it clear enough.

Regarding the maps issues stated above (US and Spain/Portugal and their islands in Africa), please let me state the origin and challenges of these issues:

Before we started with FlightMemory in April 2007, we checked with US users from FlugStatistik and asked them how to treat the 2 afar states, Hawaii and Alaska. As Germans we feared, that cutting them off the domestic map will lead to a misunderstanding, as they are states of the US..

And putting them on the domestic map with the "real data" would have made the US map very, very small...as the maps reflect a scale and therefore to include these states would make the mainland-US itself too small.

So after asking, we were made aware of the solution used today by many user from the US who had told us, other services solve it this way, as well...hence our solution today putting Hawaii and Alaska off the map and as an extra solution.

It is very frustrating for us, that we now have the problem the other way around, so if we go at it, we need to program it in a way, that allows each individual user to choose how to handle these two US states (in domestic map of US as used today or only on the worldmap).

The same challenges are applicable for Spain and Portugal with their far off islands, which, while belonging to these countries are situated as islands in front of the continent Africa - hence the "weird looking" solution, that they are "domestic" and "intercontinental" - because, they actually are both...

And concerning the same flights in mutliple maps:
Because we have user who have more than the average number of flights, we have decided, that it is best to show each flight only on one map - so if a flight appears on a domestic map, it will not show on another map...this is because we want to ensure maps to not get cluttered by redundant information and because we do have user, who have more than 1,000 flights in the system...actually the average(!) PremiumMember has more than 200 flights...

So we really do understand your frustration, too...we can only ask for your ongoing patience with us - this process can take time as we are still only two guys working for all of you, financing FlightMemory through our regular work (which also needs to be done) and trying to find solutions for each issue.
We hope, that in 2010 we can make some significant steps forward regarding the maps...