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Re: Planes overhead

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Post by aw3c2 »

scorpion032 wrote: post #36
frisco wrote: post #3

Wolfram Alpha might be the most advanced piece of web technology nobody needs.

Except until you integrate it with Siri (Only iPhone 4S, for now) and suddenly it is the technology everyone needs.

No, you don't understand. Apple saw the potential in the crude and complicated service, streamlined and polished it for humans and added revolutionary state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to give people what they need, when they need it.

Re: Planes overhead

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Post by ra »

soult wrote: post #40

I am surprised nobody has mentioned Flightradar24[0] yet. It displays planes on a Google Map with altitude, airline and flight path information. The data comes directly from ADS-B receivers of volunteers, so only planes with ADS-B transponder are shown and the coverage outside of Europe is spotty. Living in the path of a mid-size airport this tool is great for identifying noisy airplane types. 0: http://www.flightrad…

Wow, that's awesome, and it's totally live. A 747 just flew over our place (Sydney Australia) and it's position on the map was spot on.

http://www.flightradar24.com/QFA7589

Re: Planes overhead

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Post by Angostura »

mseebach wrote: post #42
dazbradbury wrote: post #31

I'm currently sat in Heathrow airport, one of the busiest airports in the world. Result: none.

One of the key features of airports is the lack of planes overhead. Also, I think it only works in the US.

US only I thnk - I'm currently in East London with planes above me stacked for landing in Heathrow: Results: None.

Results: No Data Available would be a better result.

Re: Planes overhead

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Post by kami8845 »

antimora wrote: post #23

I think the biggest problem with wolframalpha.com (besides its hard and long name) is functionality discovery. How am I supposed to know it's possible to measure "plane overheads", even if I am on their site? Anyhow, from the website usage, it looks like it never took off: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=wolframalpha.com&geo...

Wolfram Alpha not being able to sustain the "trendiness" it enjoyed during its original release isn't as bad as one might make it out to be.

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=wolframalpha.com%2C+gith...

Re: Planes overhead

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Post by plestik »

soult wrote: post #40

I am surprised nobody has mentioned Flightradar24[0] yet. It displays planes on a Google Map with altitude, airline and flight path information. The data comes directly from ADS-B receivers of volunteers, so only planes with ADS-B transponder are shown and the coverage outside of Europe is spotty. Living in the path of a mid-size airport this tool is great for identifying noisy airplane types. 0: http://www.flightrad…

There's also PlaneFinder: http://planefinder.net/ And CasperFlights (I'm the Flash developer for this one): http://casperflights.com

To be honest, I think Planefinder is the most impressive at the moment, their data is very, very good and their client is pretty decent as well.

Re: Planes overhead

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Post by ConstantineXVI »

obiterdictum wrote: post #32
frisco wrote: post #3

Wolfram Alpha might be the most advanced piece of web technology nobody needs.

Actually it's currently used in Apple's Siri to answer factual questions.

Interesting parallel; the original NeXT computer (also created by Jobs and the iPhone's ancestor by way of NeXTSTEP->MacOSX->iOS) bundled a copy of Mathematica.
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