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So there are some free sources I found for departure and arrival destinations, but they were wrong more than they were right, so unfortunately the only way to get reliable informat…

Very interesting! Most likely bad or incorrect altitude or position data from an aircraft transponder.

I LOVE the idea of applying Dolbear's Law, that would be such a cool touch.

It's meant to be relatively random. The idea is to show you some well known cities and landmarks so that you can get an idea where you are, but then some random curiosities just fo…

Thanks for the report, we'll look into it!

Great idea!

Somewhat. It currently simulates wind speed and direction for the movement of clouds. It also supports the ability to simulate cloud cover percentage (in the advanced options)— the…

I will look into this, thanks! In the meantime I'm going to implement a fallback to 2D tiles which has much higher quota limits. Try to stop the bleeding first.

Since I'm here, the why: When I was a kid — back when travelling still felt new and exciting — I would see a plane crossing the early evening sky and try to put myself in it. Not t…

Hi all! I'm the creator of Stowaway.live and I really appreciate you posting it here. All this attention has maxed out my Google 3D Tiles quota, so the ground textures in ride-alon…

The Maker Channel Action doesn't support authenticated requests, at least anything beyond something you could send in the URL or body of the message. We do this to prevent people f…

Not exactly sure what you mean by long-polling in this context. Do you mean a client making calls to the API at regular timed intervals to check the status? Or do you mean the serv…

Hey azdle, thanks for the question and being honest. Do you mind me asking who you work for? Just curious more than anything. To answer your questions about the alert code, yes it …

Yeah it's something that is browser dependent. I wouldn't call it a bug, but it is an annoyance. It's a decision we had to make in order to keep Freeboards secure for customers who…

Our core focus is read-only at the moment, but yes, command and control has been very much on our mind for a while and I think is going to be a next logical step. Technically you c…

Yeah it's 100% client side.

Check the repository again. I just updated the Readme.md to add some more docs on loading and creating plugins. Let me know if this helps. Thanks!

donatj, I would expect that both of those would work, but I can check into adding this as a feature. A lot of times this is actually an issue with CORS. The API would need to add a…

Will do mate.

Hah! Never thought about it, but you are so right. HTTP is actually an M2M protocol at heart and is by far the most prevalent on the planet...

Right now there is nothing to protect because the API is inherently open (on purpose to make it easy). But next week we will be introducing a security token mechanism to be able to…

Thanks for the feedback! To be clear, the node.js library is just a client-side library, so it should only be technically running on a single machine in most cases. Also, we only u…

So let's not a call it a security issue then. Let's call it an "it's too easy to delete" issue. And if that's the case, then that's what we're going for— easy. Remember, if you wer…

Yes and if I were a hacker, I could do the same thing with curl. Either way the only person who's likely to do it is someone who is technically savvy.