Planes overhead
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Planes overhead
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Re: Planes overhead
#2Seems to work for satellites too http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=satellites+overhead
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#3Wolfram Alpha might be the most advanced piece of web technology nobody needs.
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#4Where do they get data like speed, bearing, and altitude (at what looks like finer than 1 minute granularity)?
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#5Sadly Siri doesn't know "What planes are overhead?", though it figures it out if you say "Search wolfram alpha for planes overhead."
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#6Where do they get data like speed, bearing, and altitude (at what looks like finer than 1 minute granularity)?
Not sure where Wolfram Alpha gets it from, but that sort of data is available from, for example: https://www.flightstats.com/developers/bin/view/Main/
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#7I live under the climb out path for LAX north bound flights and landing approach for Burbank. Lots and lots of planes overhead.
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#8Seems to work for satellites too http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=satellites+overhead
Be cool if you could say "when will the ISS next pass over this location." It seems to interpret that as "where will the ISS be at the next sunrise."
"Next solar eclipse" works though.
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#9Where do they get data like speed, bearing, and altitude (at what looks like finer than 1 minute granularity)?
It says under the table "locations based on projections of delayed data" I would guess that they look at where a flight plan is going from and to and interpolate in between.
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#10Try reversing the search. After I queried "Flights overhead" I got a result set of a couple flights, including Turkish Airlines Flight NO 8.
I then queried for "Turkish Airlines Flight 8 location" and got the current trip and location, which is indeed right on top of me. Now I can see where my friends and family are when they come to visit!