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This visualization of the world’s airline flight traffic is mesmerizing

Feb18
by on February 18, 2015 at 9:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, flight data, Insider, Links, maps, Open Flights, Shareables

It’s easy to forget just how many planes are in the skies above us. Flight Stream, a startling WebGL visualization of global flight data, is a good reminder. Created by San Francisco-based British developer, Callum Prentice, it maps flights as pulsing dots on a zoomable, rotatable world. The Web app allows you to change the speed and size of how flights are represented and the opacity of the trails they leave as they criss-cross the globe. Prentice says the map currently shows routes based on data from Open Flights but hopes to use live info in a future version. Devs can…

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Google lets developers in 12 more countries launch paid apps in the Play Store

Feb18
by on February 18, 2015 at 8:14 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev

Google just introduced merchant accounts in 12 more countries, allowing developers in those nations to sell paid apps in the Play Store, reports Android Police. Here are the dozen new countries that can ship paid apps, or include in-app purchases as of today: Bahrain Bolivia Bulgaria Cyprus Dominican Republic Estonia Honduras Jamaica Latvia Lithuania Malta Panama While Android users in these countries could already buy paid apps, developers had to rely on advertising and other revenue streams to monetize their products. With the latest addition, Google Play now accepts apps from 152 countries, of which 74 can submit paid apps.…

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