Where's Wally?
Posted: 06 Mar 2013, 15:16Virgin Atlantic today marked the 25th anniversary of Where's Wally? (Waldo, for our American cousins) with the launch of a Facebook page to help you track G-VROM, Barbarella, since that aircraft has a special Wally decal attached to it.
http://virg.co/wally
Those thinking the concept looks a little familiar, the Wally map is actually based on our very own Blue Marble Maps and delivered direct from V-Flyer's servers to Virgin's Facebook pages. wally
Just like our own maps, the Wally map works out the position of the aircraft based on a data feed from Virgin, draws the base map and applies the aircraft marker (in this case, Wally's head), all in real-time. Because the routes G-VROM takes are always the Gatwick routes to the US and Caribbean, the Wally map uses a fixed area whereas the standard Blue Marble Maps work out the area the great circle route will take between the airports and zooms and crops to just that part of the map. Because it's based on the same code, however, Wally still has a full size 3250px map at its core.
Pete
http://virg.co/wally
Those thinking the concept looks a little familiar, the Wally map is actually based on our very own Blue Marble Maps and delivered direct from V-Flyer's servers to Virgin's Facebook pages. wally
Just like our own maps, the Wally map works out the position of the aircraft based on a data feed from Virgin, draws the base map and applies the aircraft marker (in this case, Wally's head), all in real-time. Because the routes G-VROM takes are always the Gatwick routes to the US and Caribbean, the Wally map uses a fixed area whereas the standard Blue Marble Maps work out the area the great circle route will take between the airports and zooms and crops to just that part of the map. Because it's based on the same code, however, Wally still has a full size 3250px map at its core.
Pete