Yazoo From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 486 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 3774 times:
Hey guys!
I was wondering, is there a website that lets you customize a Route Map online, say you want to create a fictitious airline and want to create a route map based on hub and cities served.
ArmitageShanks From UK - England, joined Dec 2003, 3366 posts, RR: 16 Reply 1, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 3743 times:
RWA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2221 posts, RR: 4 Reply 2, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 3661 times:
I have been wanting to make a route map of my routes flown over the years, I have all the info stored in my data base, however I have been real interested in finding a way to create a route map of my travels, besides manually drawing it, I was wanting to find a way to do it on my computer, will this mapper work for what I want to do, or is there something better for my purposes? Any input would be truly appreciated.. Thanks!
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COEWR From United States of America, joined Oct 2003, 273 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 3546 times:
If there is enough demand for it maybe a software company can make one? A free deal that you type in routes and it maps for you?
Anyone else interested in this? I have some connections I might be able to abuse for this sort of thing
OzarkD9S From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 4684 posts, RR: 23 Reply 4, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 3498 times:
ERJ170 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 6636 posts, RR: 19 Reply 5, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 3469 times:
DfwRevolution From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 3454 times:
Quoting COEWR (reply 3): If there is enough demand for it maybe a software company can make one? A free deal that you type in routes and it maps for you?
One suggestion: find an old copy of Adobe Illustrator, take a suitable map of the region, then just make vectors between the city pairs you want. You can eye-ball the great-circle curvature by manipulating the anchor points, and Illustrator has some great visual effects.
My moto is to use an existing tool rather than making a new one
RWA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2221 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 3325 times:
I would be very interested in anything that would allow me to make my own personal world route map of all the flights and routes I've flown, I have all this information in a data base, with pictures in my computer, the only thing that is missing is a route map, I would love this , it would make my year to have this kind of thing. The circle mapper, is what I'd like, but instead of just doing 1 route, I could get them to stay and I could add more to make my completed map. How do airlines do their on-line route maps, what programs do they use?
Next Flights: AS PDX-SAN-LIH on 739/738 in F, HA LIH-HNL-KOA-OGG on 717 in Y, AS OGG-PDX on 738 in F
DfwRevolution From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 3265 times:
Quoting RWA380 (reply 7): How do airlines do their on-line route maps, what programs do they use?
Probably a professional graphics suite like Adobe or Correl. Like I said, look for an old version of Adobe Illustrator and you can make excellent route maps. Import a .jpeg map, and create vectors between the city-pairs you have flown. The anchor point manegment allows some very creative options.
The issue is the scalibility of the map, since they use a world map, short distance routes come out as a blur.....why don't ya ask them nicely what kind of program THEY use?
OR-
Ask them the possibility of including a zoom feature, refer them to this site and the archived topics on this issue, they may be hard to find, but guaranteed, there have been many requests on this topic.
It's obvious they use something that works quite well, so I'd start there.
Quoting DfwRevolution (reply 6): My moto is to use an existing tool rather than making a new one
Exactly! And if ya don't have it. Ask your neighbor if you can borrow his!
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