Leaflet Flight Arc Map
A great-circle / flight-path map that draws curved arcs along the geodesic between every origin–destination pair, the same way airline route maps look in seat-back magazines. Each arc is rendered as an interpolated polyline along the true shortest path on the globe (not a straigh
Template details
- map
- flight
- arcs
- great-circle
- network
- leaflet
When to use this template
This visualization excels at revealing the spatial distribution and magnitude of connections within a network of geographic points. An analyst would reach for it to understand flow patterns, identify key hubs, or pinpoint popular routes and bottlenecks across different locations. It makes obvious which origin-destination pairs have the strongest or most frequent interactions.
- Datasets with distinct geographic origin and destination coordinates.
- Data representing many-to-many relationships between locations.
- Quantitative measures associated with each origin-destination pair.
- Network data where nodes are geographic points and edges are weighted connections.
- Visualizing true great-circle paths, not straight lines on a flat map.
- Aggregated flow data between discrete geographic entities.