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k1ngsn0w t1_iw4n8rk wrote

Reply to comment by Frosty_Pineapple78 in [OC] Many flights around the World by Frosty_Pineapple78

This isn't reflected in the visual at all. It looks like Miami and Orlando are the busiest. But according to the FAA, it should be Atlanta, LA, Chicago, in that order.

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Frosty_Pineapple78 OP t1_iw4o345 wrote

yeah, true, i dont know how to explain that discrepancy. All i can say is that we not only collected passenger flights but basically anything that transmitted ADS-B. Im also not sure how exactly the FAA is doing their statistics. We also counted the tracking points itself and not the flights, so there may be more tracking points over miami, maybe more flights are circling there while waiting to be cleared for landing or something like that, but of course Atlanta and LA are still the busiest airports. Honestly: I dont know, but you brought up an interesting point that none of us noticed during the creation of it, thanks for that!, ill probably try searching for the max value pixels

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k1ngsn0w t1_iw4opdr wrote

In that case, I suppose it could be explained by the number of indirect flughts fly through Miami, i.e. all the flights that stop by is not their end destination. I think FAA still accounts for that but not 100%.

Hope this does well in the project for you!

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Frosty_Pineapple78 OP t1_iw4p300 wrote

that would deff be an explanation, maybe we will find out more about that if we take another look at the data, maybe we just made a mistake in our code, ill deff keep that in mind tho

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thanks a lot! we already submitted the project and got a perfect grade for it, dont know if the US uses the same system but it was a 1.0, this bitmap is just one small part of the statistics that our program did

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