Airliner Aircraft Crash
(1969-2018)

Introduction

About the Airliner Aircraft Crash Map

The Airliner Aircraft Crash Map was made during the term in TUW for Map Creation Course. It aims to present Airliner Aircraft Crash events happened from 1969 to 2018 and their flight route information with more details in one map.Audiences can get the more detailed information like the position of crash site, finished flight route and unfinished flight route according to the different symbols on the map. Data used for the map are 1) Topographical World Map from Natural Earth 2)Aircraft crash data fromWikipedia.

Data

Flight Trajectory

Final Map

Mapping Procedure

Record the process on making the map

  • Step 1

    Data Preparation

    1) Searched topographical World Map for the base map 2) Used python code to crawl the crash data from webiste and geocode the location info.

  • Step 2

    Projection

    1) Reprojected the crash data whose coordinates are based on Google Map 2) Selected the suitable project (Eckert IV) for the Map

  • Step 3

    Creating Aircraft Trajectory

    Devloped Arc Script Tool for Creating Aircraft Trajectory based on their start position, crash site and destination coordinates.

  • Step 4

    Statistic

    Analyzed the Airliner Aircraft Crash situation in each year.

  • Step 5

    Map Design

    Designed suitable symbols for different information and layout for the final map.

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