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Old Feb 28, 2011 | 2:31 am
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jpatokal
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Originally Posted by Sea-Wolf
Does anyone know if there's some way to produce something like the posters on Flightmemory with OpenFlights instead? I'm talking about the really nice looking ones you have to pay for that have your flight paths on the Blue Marble photo: Flight Memory Posters.
I'm guessing that this might be possible with the KML export and the right software, but I've been stuffing around for a while looking for something to do it and have had no success.
Google Earth is incapable of producing anything but a 3D globe (as far as I can tell), so that's out. I don't even want this to be especially high-res or huge, just an A4 page would do fine.
Computationally, it's not a particularly difficult task, data/map-routes.php in the OpenFlights source repo plots any sequence of coordinates on top of a world map image in equirectangular projection (eg. Blue Marble). The main problem is finding a sufficiently high-res image to plot onto, eg. Wikipedia only has a 2048x1200 image, which is barely enough for A4. This site has a 43200x21600 map (!), but it would take a bit of wrangling to chop that down to size.
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