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Re: ADS-B Exposed

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Post by etskinner »

zX41ZdbW wrote: post #23
etskinner wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is "You"? I tried reading the query to understand but couldn't figure it out

I'd like it if you try to guess :) But it is easy to figure it out from the source code. The source code is here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/blob/main/index.h...

Apparently my 'easy' isn't the same as yours. There's nothing I could find in the code that describes what it is. You'd have to make a pretty big logic leap to figure it out. All you can see in the code (in config.js, not in index.html) is the dataset url (random string) and the description "this website", which tells you very little.

For anyone who just wants to skip to the answer, I found it in the pull requests / issues: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/issues/47

Re: ADS-B Exposed

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Post by metrix »

zX41ZdbW wrote: post #18

Thanks for posting! I've recently added more datasets, "Places", "Birds", "Photos", and "You". Also, a hint - the rectangular selection tool lets you generate custom reports for a location.

what's going on around colorado springs with these shapes?

https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Planes&zoom=9&lat=38.2165&lng=...

Re: ADS-B Exposed

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Post by ikmckenz »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #25
cozzyd wrote: post #19

We have a an ADS-B receiver at Summit Station in Greenland which we use to track airplanes that produce RFI we see in our experiment. I've considered sharing data (since nobody else seems to have data there) but the feeding instructions always scare me (run this script that downloads a bunch of random crap as sudo... no thanks). Please just give me a cURL command I can run... (perhaps some services have that, I haven…

https://airplanes.live/get-started/ (other sites are corporate or have sold out [adsbexchange], happy to contribute reasonable costs to get a feed, no affiliation, I just like sensor feeds, thank you for the offer and consideration)

What's the story behind adsbexchange selling out?

Re: ADS-B Exposed

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Post by madethemcry »

I missed the "About" link in the footer but still found my way to the repo [1], where the project is briefly explained including a ton of great example images. Thanks for that!

> This website (technology demo) allows you to aggregate and visualize massive amounts of air traffic data. The data is hosted in a ClickHouse database and queried on the fly. You can tune the visualizations with custom SQL queries and drill-down from 50 billion records to individual data records.

[1] https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/

Re: ADS-B Exposed

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Post by [deleted] »

lexlambda wrote: post #14

This is certainly missing some kind of legend explaining the colors of the lines, and what data is actually shown. Is "red" high or low velocity? And as an example, I do not understand what the "Boeing vs. Airbus" selection is trying to represent, as well as how "Altitude & Velocity" are supposed to be displayed at the same time. Project certainly requires a bit more care if any discussion should happen around it.

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Re: ADS-B Exposed

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Post by ascorbic »

keepamovin wrote: post #7
ronbenton wrote: post #6

URL makes this sound like it’s supposed to be scandalous

I know! I think the creator, brilliant as they must be, is not an English native speaker. Or perhaps they simply enjoy the controversy / provocation heh :)

I think it's just a fun tld with the "adsb" domain available.

Re: ADS-B Exposed

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Post by compass_copium »

metrix wrote: post #43
zX41ZdbW wrote: post #18

Thanks for posting! I've recently added more datasets, "Places", "Birds", "Photos", and "You". Also, a hint - the rectangular selection tool lets you generate custom reports for a location.

what's going on around colorado springs with these shapes? https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Planes&zoom=9&lat=38.2165&lng=...

Possibly training flights; they will often do racetrack shapes like that for long periods to maintain proficiency with the aircraft type.

Re: ADS-B Exposed

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Post by CamperBob2 »

zX41ZdbW wrote: post #18

Thanks for posting! I've recently added more datasets, "Places", "Birds", "Photos", and "You". Also, a hint - the rectangular selection tool lets you generate custom reports for a location.

Awesome work, but please consider providing some contrast options. You can't see the country or continent boundaries unless they are full of tracks (or at least I can't.)

Re: ADS-B Exposed

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Post by bwestergard »

zX41ZdbW wrote: post #18

Thanks for posting! I've recently added more datasets, "Places", "Birds", "Photos", and "You". Also, a hint - the rectangular selection tool lets you generate custom reports for a location.

This is super cool.

Where is the bird dataset coming from? I assumed ebird at first, but these datapoints don't map on to ebird hotspots...

Also, where did you get the collection of creative commons licensed bird species photos?

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