Visualizing Traffic
Actually I wanted to post a link to Flight Radar 24 already a while ago, but the current eruption of a icelandic volcano makes it even more interesting to look at the live air traffic situation, as the all planes remain on the ground in UK and whole of Scandinavia.
The map features detailed information of each major airplane currently in the air, with complete path history, altitude, etc. So, next time you look up into the sky and wish to fly away as well, you can go to the site and will probably find out that the airplane either goes only to London or Frankfurt anyways :-)
There is also a similarly cool visualisation of the live Marine Traffic:
Additionally, the Flowing Data blog posted an overview of cool traffic visualizations just today. Check it out.
