One of many visualizations on this topic, but brings together the previous posts to a nice conclusion.
Year: 2014
Clipping Datasets to the Dateline in ogr2ogr
If you want to visualise a global flight great circle dataset in QGIS it needs to be clipped to the dateline.
This is extremely easy to do using ogr2ogr.
The command is simply:
ogr2ogr -wrapdateline output_file.shp input_file.shp
With the results.
