Map: Flight Path Pandemonium

Recent UCLA graduate Aaron Koblin collected latitude, longitude, and altitude data of U.S. and Canadian flights from March 19, 2005, through the early morning of March 21, 2005. After parsing and plotting the enormous chunks of information, Koblin ended up with this depiction of 28 hours' worth of air traffic. In all, the number of flights recorded by the Federal Aviation Administration was more than 20,000.