Thoroughly enjoyed the feeling of figuring out the mapping tool (are those calipers?) as i had no previous experience with that kind of navigation tool and the intuitive steps to figure that out were really rewarding.
The above mentioned bug with the world chugging moving the smoke signals dissuaded me from deciphering too many island codes but i was quite distracted tonight so i think in general i would relish making a survey of the names. Having the icon based island markers was a great call too for getting started.
i was also really intrigued by the possibility of mapping out the air currents (the coloured marker/bird name correlation was a good call).