World Airport Explorer - From the creators of GeoWalk comes this awesome world airport explorer. Available in English, German and English it displays all primary and secondary airports for all countries around the world. To get started click here and choose your language from the flag key at the top right. Drill down from continent, area, country then region to view all airports. Primary airports are marked with an airplane marker and smaller airports with colored pins. Each airport mashes up with Wikipedia entries (where available) and Flickr images tagged for that airport! Very cool.It's worth mentioning that the above mashup is born out of another really cool Flickr + Wikipedia + Hotel info mashup for world locations. It's called GeoWalk and I've mentioned it before. Tap anywhere on the world map and it gives you pictures, information and hotel info for that very spot. Neat for preparing for travel or while you're on the road and want to learn more about your present location!
Google World Time Map - This is not a new Google Maps tool concept but the interface and method to learn the time is. Roll the mouse over the map and the info-window instantly displays the present time for that location. GChart is another good world time map concept with other data mashed up for you to explore on.
4 comments:
the world airport explorer is indeed cool. but there are comments to be made on the data. I had a quick look at the airport in China and well, i was not so pleased by what i saw.
for example:
- In Hongkong, the big international airport is confused with the old one.
- i couldn't find shenzhen airport. but yet, another one miscalled "hong kong airport)
- Chengdu is a primary airport, i think.
I stopped looking at that point.
Geowalk is weird. I went to the placemark for Gothenburg sweden and then looked at the hotels for Gothenburg which only gave me hotels for the Caribbean. Is this some kind of dreadful warning?
In my country, in Galiza, NW Spain, only secondary airports, but no one marker is in its right location, and according to the language I choose I get different results from different wikipedias.
For example, in LCG A Coruña/Corunna airport, German and french versions fail to link to a related wikipedia article and even link to another different towns just in the opposite side of the bay. Of course, airport was located in harbour facilities.
In case of VGO, Vigo airport only exists for the french version...
It looked cool, but it should improve to become actually useful :P
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