LAX flight arrivals and departures

Realtime arrivals and departures at LAX in SL


Amazing this can be shown when thinking of security concerns (but really - there are easier ways of finding this information if so desired). A view of traffic in and around Los Angeles airport (LAX) using realtime data streams. I assume these are web scraped data sets. What does seeing this information in three dimensions do to the info? Make it more real and less like abstracted information? More easy to experience/understand data versus simply knowing it?

LAX Departures and arrivals in SL.

Realtime weather link to Second Life

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The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the US has an extensive island in SL that includes a realtime three dimensional weather map of the United States showing rain and temperature. The map is interactive as far as choosing what to display, and it is updated continuously. t would be great if this were larger so that avatars could "get wet" in their home town without fear of catching cold.

To visit in Second Life (you need to have SL client on your computer to experience): http://slurl.com/secondlife/Meteora/220/166/26

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3D data in Second Life

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A  linking project between web page information and a solid representation in SL. Good example of web scraping process which could be applied to a wide variety of things.
"The script in SL pings a web-server every minute. That server scrapes both the google stock market data for current prices, and the yahoo pages for historical prices, does some fancy footwork and returns the values to be plotted. The script takes that return and converts into these bars"

http://eloisepasteur.net/blog/index.php?/archives/114-Stock-market-prices-Histogram.html

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