HoKo

I love this tool! So useful, thanks for all the hard work that must've gone into building it. One suggestion: It would be great if we could save the Custom combinations of airlines that we build. Everytime I close the program I lose those custom views and have to rebuild them the next time.

MDtR-Chicago

Ah but you can! cmn.jcs posted about this earlier. Just use notepad or some other text editor to add the custom list to alliances.dat before you open the program. It will show up at the top of the list with the Alliances.

I did this to add full partner lists for UA and AA to my map. ^

HalcyonGeezer

Hello, thanks for all the effort that you put into such a useful program. I've just downloaded the July 2012 version, but where has the "View Selected Routes" function gone?

HoKo

Indeed! Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

flieronthewall

Are you getting tired of the praise heaped on you for this tool? If not let me add to the chorus! Your tool is actually most versatile, since a non-airline entity could just replace the from/to airport codes with their own place names (say for a trade route viz tool, or a population migration viz tool...)

Very curious abt which software you used to write your code in - (I did search and found you definitely do not want to share the source code, so I didn't go there) -

The reason I ask is, my potential use of the tool would be a little different - I am using tableausoftware to map some of our data which is travel-related, but NOT airline-specific, and I wanted to go in slightly different direction with your software, to see if a modified version of it could be added as a plug-in of sorts to my tableau files, or...??
So to modify it..while I could add a 'dummy" airline with my data to my copy of the airlines.dat and routes.dat files, unfortunately my routes would be multi-segment and not non-stop (like all yours seem to be.) So I would want to add (a maximum of) 16 destinations for every row in route.dat, and then the application would need to read that and plot accordingly.

Which is why the question on the software used by you..

Thanks for a great versatile tool.

cockpitvisit

It was written in plain C++, there was no special "software" involved. The graphics is done using OpenGL for speed.

You may want to consider Google Earth for plotting your routes - you could generate .KML files and display them in Google Earth.

dagoseed72

Very nice tool. ¿Where are you getting all the routes from?¿How do you update them?

Congratulations.

meyerovb

PHL-SAT

ihavebeenseen

Does anyone know where to get route frequency for the route data?

GRALISTAIR

bookmarked excellent

cockpitvisit

A new update is available.

• Route maps updated to reflect October 2012
• Alliance membership updated

RTW1

Thanks... I just saw this thread. Looks awesome.

But I'm not seeing a worldmap as a background just the airport dots that somewhat make up the continents... is this normal? Your screenshot suggests something different...

cmn.jcs

I just downloaded the update and it looks fine (matches the screenshots).

cockpitvisit

Try enabling the "1-pixel offset" in options. This problem seems to happen with some graphics drivers.

RTW1

Thanks, that worked.