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map MastaHanky
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map ringbark
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FlightMemory
Sep 15, 2009, 1:45 pm
#226
Moderator, Hilton Honors
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: on a short leash
Programs: some
Posts: 71,422
All flights that appear on your selected "home" map will not appear on the world map. Continental US to Hawaii appears on your "home" map, and thus not on the world map. If you change your "home" map to another country then the US domestic flights, including those to Hawaii will show (see my FM map for example)
Sep 16, 2009, 3:06 am
#228
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: BCN
Programs: IHG, M&M, FB, Avios, ALL, etc.
Posts: 928
Flight Memory has a weird way of displaying domestic flights. For instance, my flights from mainland Spain to the Canary Islands are not shown on the map of Spain; and on the other hand they count as both domestic and intercontinental flights.
And these, as well as any flight to and within northern Africa can only be seen on the Europe map!
And these, as well as any flight to and within northern Africa can only be seen on the Europe map!
Sep 17, 2009, 3:52 am
#229
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend, Moderator, Information Desk, Ambassador, Alaska Airlines
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: FAI
Programs: AS MVP Gold100K, AS 1MM, Maika`i Card, AGR, HH Gold, Hertz PC, Marriott Titanium LTG, CO, 7H, BA, 8E
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Flight Memory has a weird way of displaying domestic flights. For instance, my flights from mainland Spain to the Canary Islands are not shown on the map of Spain; and on the other hand they count as both domestic and intercontinental flights.
And these, as well as any flight to and within northern Africa can only be seen on the Europe map!
And these, as well as any flight to and within northern Africa can only be seen on the Europe map!
So sometimes I switch it to global view so it shows the flights correctly... but its rather small...
Still I wish it could show more range on the domestic US flights...
Sep 18, 2009, 2:43 am
#230
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Germany, near FRA (1h)
Posts: 28
The maps issues
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...
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...
Sep 18, 2009, 3:45 am
#231
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Terra Australis Cognita
Posts: 5,350
Sep 20, 2009, 3:58 am
#232
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: BCN
Programs: IHG, M&M, FB, Avios, ALL, etc.
Posts: 928
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...
Besides, I'd rather see my flights from Spain to African countries on the World Map. I think it's only logical.
Sep 20, 2009, 1:04 pm
#233
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Germany, near FRA (1h)
Posts: 28
Like I said - solutions will come. TX for supporting us!
Sep 27, 2009, 7:13 am
#235
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Los Angeles
Programs: Delta PM, Hilton Diamond, Starwoord Gold, Amex Centurion, Global Entry
Posts: 227
Thank you for your post! For users with not so many flights, wouldn't it be easier to show all flights on all maps? For me it was very confusing missing 10 flights on the worldmap. I would like to use the worldmap as the most complete map of flights I made.
Sep 28, 2009, 2:08 am
#236
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend, Moderator, Information Desk, Ambassador, Alaska Airlines
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: FAI
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My workaround is by choosing an obscure country and setting that as your primary, forcing all the flights on the world view...
Jan 8, 2010, 4:42 pm
#240
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: ATL/SLC
Posts: 3,540
I don't know if any of you have noticed, but I found a little fun feature buried deep within FlightMemory.
If you click on the "FlightData" section, then choose "Search in all flights", there is a section at the bottom that will search the database for other users who have been on the same flights as you.
Using this I found that our own iCorpRoadie was on the same SLC-ATL flight as me on July 12, 2007!
If you click on the "FlightData" section, then choose "Search in all flights", there is a section at the bottom that will search the database for other users who have been on the same flights as you.
Using this I found that our own iCorpRoadie was on the same SLC-ATL flight as me on July 12, 2007!