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benlimner

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    Comment #47139812

    Love this story. I’m glad you found the app

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    Comment #47060096

    As the maker of airloom I’m super impressed with this project and would also suggest supporting it. Nice work!

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    Comment #46103438

    Congrats on the impending launch!

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    Comment #46102876

    I’m glad you noticed. I’ll still look into pinch zoom for ya regardless

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    Comment #46102857

    Can you give the iata codes for these? I can only find TMA in ForeFlight, and it looks like it’s uncontrolled airspace so there wouldn’t be anything represented in my app

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    Comment #46102825

    Done! Use ?airport=nearme

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    Comment #46101331

    I’ve been using them through their free api, and I got rate limited. So I’ll maybe self-host, or find a paid provider with better tiles

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    Comment #46101155

    I fixed the altitude scale issue.

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    Comment #46090740

    I’ll have to look into that when renaming this. I didn’t do any product research before, and it looks like there are bike saddles, power generators, and mattresses all with the sam…

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    Comment #46090158

    Can you expand on that for me, I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at

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    Comment #46090145

    Thanks I still have a lot of optimization to do before this is smooth across the board. It’s definitely a chrome-first app at this point.

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    Comment #46090135

    Yeah that is a good move. I’ll add this to the short list

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    Comment #46088421

    Thanks for the note. I hear you on the zoom pain. What would be your preferred means of zooming?

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    Comment #46088366

    Thanks for the note and follow! I’ll have to experiment with a full 3-D globe. The only problem I foresee is the lag associated with rendering the thousands of global flights all a…

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    Comment #46088354

    No glitch. It’s purposefully limited upon initial load. Adjust the search radius to increase your view range

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    Comment #46088346

    There’s a bug where airspace doesn’t like to load after searching for an airport. I’m working on that. Try loading airspace on one of the default random airports & let me know if i…

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    Comment #46088336

    Maybe this will be something you look at to review interesting flights, or near misses?

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    Comment #46088330

    I’ll work on adding a ‘near me’ direct link. I totally missed that feature so thanks for mentioning it. Thanks for also pointing out the direct link to airport bug. I’m planning on…

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    Comment #46088301

    Thanks for the note. I’m actively chasing down both of these. The scale change one will be easy to sort out. The black one is a little harder, sometimes the adsb data comes in corr…

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    Comment #46088289

    Sounds like a fun challenge

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    Comment #46085052

    Have you tried the record/playback features?

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    Comment #46085050

    There is some info you can get if you click the plane, then click the call sign

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    Comment #46084801

    Share it!

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    Comment #46084800

    Could, yes. I’ve tried it in 2d to pretty good success. It’s a bit low on my list of items to add, partially because I have a hunch that calculating and projecting thousands of vec…