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ge96 5 days ago [-]
Why is there almost no traffic in places like South America (other than Brazil) and Africa? Data set or reality? Not much in China/Russia either.
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
The current data is from OpenSky, mainly north america and EU.
whywhywhywhy 5 days ago [-]
Zooming on a mouse wheel on windows is nearly unusable, it goes from whole of europe to town level in one mouse wheel notch.
stingrae 5 days ago [-]
im on a mac and had the same issue.
other bugs:
when i pan around (while zoomed far in), the planes arent in a fixed position on the map, they shift with the pan
ux bug: when i zoom in, it zooms into the middle of the browser window instead of where my cursor is.
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
I just modified zooming algo a lit, now it should improve your user experience.
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
I will take a look to fix these bugs.
coolwulf 4 days ago [-]
also fixed the parallelex problem of route trail vs. the plane icon
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
I am on Mac. Will try to get on a Windows box to test this
aduffy 5 days ago [-]
There's something a little off about the projection logic when you drop into the Leaflet view, you'll notice that when you pan around after zooming the planes shift their location.
Very cool demo though!
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
Need to check my calculations. Thanks for noticing it.
coolwulf 4 days ago [-]
This is fixed now.
maxwg 5 days ago [-]
Impressive. The planes should probably scale up a bit as you zoom though, they become impossible to spot.
I'm surprised all the flights in the world can be represented in a <500KB api call
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
try change to satellite view it will be more visible
ddoolin 5 days ago [-]
When you zoom in to the street map level, the planes are practically invisible with their color and thin borders. Pretty neat though, that's a lot to load and keep smooth.
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
If you switch to satelite view, the planes will be very visible.
christophilus 5 days ago [-]
Makes the divide between the developed and developing world very clear.
Edit: can’t be right. I think this is a dataset problem. China and Brazil should have more dots.
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
opensky database is limited. I need to find some data source for China and south America
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
For people having problems navigating, you can search flifht number on the left search bar. When click on the flight number, the view will jump over.
paulnsorensen 5 days ago [-]
Wow. I won't give you a feature request :) just appreciation.
It really puts into perspective the magnitude of air traffic when you have this visualization.
coolwulf 4 days ago [-]
Updated to version 1.3, now on mobile phone (iOS/Android), it should have better user experience.
lwansbrough 5 days ago [-]
Could probably extrapolate positions based on heading and speed, to do some fake "real time" positions.
concensure 4 days ago [-]
Did you pay for flight api? Getting comprehensive real time flight data is quite a monetary challenge
coolwulf 4 days ago [-]
I registered on OpenSky and using their API
c0nsumer 4 days ago [-]
When zooming in and it switches to the lighter color tiles, the icons basically become invisible.
coolwulf 4 days ago [-]
the airline flight number attached to the icon is in dark color and should be visible, also could switch to satelite view when zoom in, which is dark color
ab_testing 4 days ago [-]
How are you getting that real time flight data from . Is there a free source for this ?
coolwulf 4 days ago [-]
you can check OpenSky, they have API with free tier.
pstomi 5 days ago [-]
It render extremely fast on my side (firefox, macOS).
Which UI stack are you using? Is it egui?
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
It's mainly eGui + WebGPU
Glubker 5 days ago [-]
Really cool!
Curious to know how you made it render everything so fast with barely any loading.
Good work.
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
:P just optimize to the extreme
Levitating 5 days ago [-]
The wasm file (flight_viz_bg.wasm) was 10.94 MB as reported by firefox.
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
I changed a higher resolution image and that is why now it is a little bigger...
Levitating 4 days ago [-]
If it's just the image, you could try using more aggressive compression?
ryaker 3 days ago [-]
QWhere are you getting the flight data?
moci 4 days ago [-]
It seems there is very little flight data from China.
coolwulf 4 days ago [-]
That's the limitation of current OpenSky api. Most of Chinese airlines data are not in it.
sensarts 4 days ago [-]
wow, more than 10K airbuses just over the NA. Looks like airplanes are the major source of air pollution.
amelius 5 days ago [-]
Can you add pinch zoom?
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
Currently I developed this for desktop browser, so it might not work well on mobile. But I will improve and update it.
pohl 5 days ago [-]
You should be able to do pinch zoom support for laptops with a trackpad, too. I think it would be
window.addEventListener('wheel', ... )
Fantastic work!
amelius 5 days ago [-]
Ok, I'm on desktop now. And I notice another "issue". When I use my mouse wheel to zoom, the point that my mouse cursor is on is not stationary. This makes it hard to zoom in on e.g. a specific aircraft or landmark.
coolwulf 5 days ago [-]
I can take a look. The current zoom is zooming to screen center. Maybe I should change it to cursor location.
amelius 4 days ago [-]
Yes, that will definitely be an improvement.
coolwulf 4 days ago [-]
Updated to version 1.3, now on mobile phone (iOS/Android), it should have better user experience.
other bugs: when i pan around (while zoomed far in), the planes arent in a fixed position on the map, they shift with the pan
ux bug: when i zoom in, it zooms into the middle of the browser window instead of where my cursor is.
Very cool demo though!
I'm surprised all the flights in the world can be represented in a <500KB api call
Edit: can’t be right. I think this is a dataset problem. China and Brazil should have more dots.
It really puts into perspective the magnitude of air traffic when you have this visualization.
Good work.
window.addEventListener('wheel', ... )
Fantastic work!