How we created a map of the global architecture of airport runways, which turned out to be a wind map. — This article is a collaborative work by David Elsche, Steffen Hänsch, and Sascha Collet. Trails of Wind — The architecture of airport runways
Air travel has been in existence for over one hundred years. Since its inception, thousands of airports runways have…trailsofwind.figures.cc While Flying on a plane the man-made structures and how they change the face of the earth are overwhelming. The bird’s eye view casts a whole other light on how humans interact with landscapes, using every…