It there anything better than maps? Whether you’re looking for something, need to know the state of something or need to know where you are relative to something you choose some sort of map. Take away someone maps and they’re screwed, give them a map and they’re you make them productive.
As you know I’m a bit of a maps addict (thanks, Google), here’s three apps (in no particular sequence) you may find cool:
The Casper online flight tracker. A beautiful implementation for aircraft tracking.
The marinetraffic.com vessel tracking site is amazing. And I checked, looking at the vessels map in a browser and looking out the window at vessels outside the harbor is a direct match. Amazing stuff.
And of course you might be interested in turbulence, so there’s the Live Turbulence Explorer to tell you where to watch out when you’re taking off with your jet-pack.
