Does it show ICEy conditions too?
Flighty Airports
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#162I think this may be a 'bug': as you zoom into the US west coast, SAN is visible before LAX. But LAX serves much more people every day, so a random person is much more likely to care about LAX. Intuitively, it seems to me that LAX should show up first. That could be intentional, but I can't think of a good reason why that choice would be made.
Not only that, but airports blink in-and-out of existence as you zoom or pan the map around. It can't even decide if it wants to show a certain airport or not.
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#163If you fly a lot, you might also be aware of the National Airspace System Status: https://nasstatus.faa.gov/ It also has links to a lot of other information useful for people in the airline industry. I find the Airport Arrival Demand Chart to be good for seeing a big picture of all the flights: https://www.fly.faa.gov/aadc/
I've never seen the nasstatus page, but I have seen the OIS page, which I use frequently when experiencing delays to find out what's going on: https://www.fly.faa.gov/ois/?legacy=true
The links on the NAS page are also really good. nice share!
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Subscriptions on the iOS app. Per SensorTower, it's making ~$1m/month. https://app.sensortower.com/overview/1358823008?country=US
Makes me wonder then why they can't afford a team of Android developers to make the Android version.
I'm sure they can afford that, but would that end up paying for itself? Would that end up bringing in enough new paying users to justify spending all that money on a team of Android engineers?
They probably haven't done it because it doesn't make sense for them financially.
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#165MiseryMap: https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/
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#166MiseryMap: https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/
Pretty interesting link as well. Thanks for sharing
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#167What would be super useful is an indicator of how long it takes to get through TSA
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#168MiseryMap: https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/
Misery Map adds two crucial pieces of context: the delays between airports, and rain/snow on the map, which often is the reason for delays. It's nice to see it all together.
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#169I think this may be a 'bug': as you zoom into the US west coast, SAN is visible before LAX. But LAX serves much more people every day, so a random person is much more likely to care about LAX. Intuitively, it seems to me that LAX should show up first. That could be intentional, but I can't think of a good reason why that choice would be made.
Google Maps has had this bug with street names not revealing based on any rational priority at varying zoom levels.. for like a decade. I'm going to start using this as an interview question for people to solve.
If you think this is an easy problem to solve, here's an old article that discusses some of the challenges in doing so:
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#170Also recommend nasstatus.FAA.gov