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Note from the developer: I’m so glad that many of you like this app. I’m a solo dev, actively building between my 9-5 and raising a 9mo. Please follow along on X https://x.com/benlimner , or join the mailing list for updates/suggestions!
Cool, I tried something similar 30 years ago working for a military contractor: http://zoom.interoscitor.com/PetersonEnterprises/Consulting/... I was asked to come up with a 3D display of the airspace around an aircraft for the pilot to use and which could replace the 2D displays used then. People were impressed, but decided it was impractical for a variety of reasons. You can't really tell where the aircraft are rel…
You faced all of the same usability problems. Until there is a true 3D display I don’t think this will be super useful for true traffic awareness. The cockpit is just too chaotic.
It’s very interesting to see your graphic. Was this supposed to be displayed on a cockpit TV?
Note from the developer: I’m so glad that many of you like this app. I’m a solo dev, actively building between my 9-5 and raising a 9mo. Please follow along on X https://x.com/benlimner , or join the mailing list for updates/suggestions!
I am not a developer at all (electrician, retired, live in a flightpath), but I'm pretty sure you can build a healthy retirement with your absolutely breathtaking solo project. At the same time, I'm not sure how you monetize such an easily "stealable" idea. My hunch is that you'll see other flight trackers debut your perspective as one of many layers within their own trackers (this is where you come in, as consultant…
But if nothing comes of it, I’ve had a ball making it, and chatting with the community.
Note from the developer: I’m so glad that many of you like this app. I’m a solo dev, actively building between my 9-5 and raising a 9mo. Please follow along on X https://x.com/benlimner , or join the mailing list for updates/suggestions!
Cool project. I noticed one minor area for potential improvement: when I look at the ATL area right now, it looks like aircraft are clipping through the ground at takeoff and landing. I'm guessing this is because you're taking the pressure altitude which is derived from aircraft transponder data, and incorrectly interpreting it as altitude above sea level, without correcting for local air pressure variations. Right n…
There are some places on the map where the terrain texture isn’t great, or is below the elevation of the centered airport, and the planes will breach the mesh. There’s a setting in there where you can manually tweak the ‘ground elevation’ if it gets annoying to you.
Note from the developer: I’m so glad that many of you like this app. I’m a solo dev, actively building between my 9-5 and raising a 9mo. Please follow along on X https://x.com/benlimner , or join the mailing list for updates/suggestions!
For interesting flights to visualize in 3D, try to get data from one of the Zero-G planes on their parabolic flights. F-HNOV is the European one.
Also watching the high altitude balloons pop and fall straight through traffic is awesome
Note from the developer: I’m so glad that many of you like this app. I’m a solo dev, actively building between my 9-5 and raising a 9mo. Please follow along on X https://x.com/benlimner , or join the mailing list for updates/suggestions!
For interesting flights to visualize in 3D, try to get data from one of the Zero-G planes on their parabolic flights. F-HNOV is the European one.
Note from the developer: I’m so glad that many of you like this app. I’m a solo dev, actively building between my 9-5 and raising a 9mo. Please follow along on X https://x.com/benlimner , or join the mailing list for updates/suggestions!
had it bookmarked since the last share, but had noted the world-tiles would regularly not load, seems okay (and with colors?) now, but maybe that could need some low-detail fallback when arcgisonline servers are busting? - some 16k image to fill all the black void? also "copy this view" does nothing (neither location nor any settings, gives just the bare link)
I think the map tiles are a symptom of the overnight success of the app. I might have to find a new map provider if they permanently limited my IP
Super cool app, saw someone posting about this on insta the other day. Do you have any info about how you've gathered and united all the different kinds of data you needed to build this? I've been working on a bunch of GIS/mapping stuff recently and I would love to hear more about other people's approaches to this sort of thing.
Honestly I just smooshed a lot of different public sources of data together. There was a lot of fine tuning, and retracing my steps. No real magic. But happy to answer some questions.
this is really cool! can you make it interpolate and smoothly animate based on velocity and trajectory?
I’ve tried it in 2d to pretty good success. It’s a bit low on my list of items to add, partially because I have a hunch that calculating and projecting thousands of vectors is going to cost more compute than simply accepting coordinates and drawing lines.
Pretty cool! I made something similar a while ago, and used cesium primarily.