A world map of where people fly
After the visitors from X on 30 September we looked at where everyone actually went. The answer turned out to be a long list: 258 cities in about 70 countries, from Trondheim and Glasgow to San Luis Potosí, Riyadh, Bandung and Moroni. A table was the wrong way to read it, so it is now a map.
skydex.online/world shows every city someone has flown over in Skydex. Each city is a circle. The size is how many times pilots arrived there, and the colour is how long they stayed in the air over it, from blue (a quick pass) to orange (people stayed and circled). Tap a city for its numbers: arrivals, minutes over it, the average per visit, and the last day someone was there.
Pick a period
The page is a history, not a live view, so it opens on the last 30 days and lets you go back: 7 days, 90 days, a year, all time, or any range you type in. Above the map you get the totals for that period: arrivals, signed-in pilots, hours flown over cities, how many cities and countries, and the change against the period of the same length just before it. A small chart shows arrivals day by day, so a busy weekend or a quiet week is easy to spot.
Filters let you look at guests only or signed-in pilots only, at visitors from one country, or at flights over one country. Under the map sits a table of the top 100 cities. Click a column to sort by arrivals, time over the city, average time, share of guests or the last visit. Click a row and the city lights up on the map. The map can be saved as a picture with the period and totals printed under it.
What the numbers mean
An arrival is a pilot entering a city while flying. One flight across three cities counts three times, so arrivals are neither flights nor people. Pilots are signed-in accounts; guests have no stable id, so we never count them as people.
Hamburg needs its own note. It is where the game starts a pilot whose location we can't tell, so most of its arrivals are a starting point rather than a choice. On the map it is a dashed ring with its number instead of the biggest circle in the world.
A city on this map is where someone flew in the sim, not where they live, so it says nothing about a person. Visitors are only ever shown by country.
The page is linked from Live. If your city isn't on it yet, take off and put it there.