The Thanksgiving Flying Map

Google Trends has published an animated map showing people traveling across the USA to larn to their Thanksgiving Day dinners. US Thanksgiving on Google Flights uses CartoDB's Torque library to animate domestic as well as international air go on the level of Thanksgiving booked through Google Flights.

You tin operate the playback command to navigate through the whole of yesterday's airplane journeys. As the 24-hour interval plays out you lot tin encounter a clear designing of flights starting on the eastward coast inwards the early on hours, spreading to the whole country, until the latter hours of the 24-hour interval when flights emanating from the eastward of the terra firma larn out down, piece flights from the westward coast comport on until the early on hours of today.

The flying markers on the map are colored to stand upwards for the unlike airlines.