ADS-B
Data
flight data visualization
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How HN took it
13 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 4 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Design: 7 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Visually beautiful, striking images
From 4 comments
This is beautiful! Definitely worth looking at the examples in the Github repo: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/ I particularly like the example of helicopters…
johtso on HNWow, this is beautiful! I predict this will get a hug of death $soon
panki27 on HNThis is arrestingly beautiful. I kind of want to get a print or two of some of these. Even the color choices are magnificent
mvkel on HNThis is fantastic!
throwaway743 on HN
Technically impressive implementation
From 2 comments
Wow. I have no idea what I'm looking at but it's pretty. And I do recognise the extended centrelines of local runways, as well as the typical instrument approach tracks into…
kqr on HNIt's like writing webgl shaders for ADS-B. In SQL. Incredible work, and I hope this kicks off a lot of innovation in the world of aircraft traffic analysis & visualization, which…
jjwiseman on HN
Objections
Map shows empty or tiles load slowly for some users, possibly due to an ad-block list blocking clickhouse.com
From 4 comments
Hi, thanks for sharing! Unfortunately besides empty map I don't see any visualization. Browser dev console is showing some CORS errors. EDIT: Nevermind, clickhouse.com was on…
systemz on HNfully empty map on iOS safari for me.
Solvency on HNFirefox, no map either. Tried all combinations of adblocker & VPN on/off, refreshing the map. Saw couple of tiles for a brief moment, then they disappeared, and I never saw them…
culebron21 on HNTurns out the tiles showed up always, but couple minutes later.
culebron21 on HN
Attribution to adsb.lol data licence (ODbL) questioned
From 3 comments
https://adsb.lol provides this data licensed under ODbL, this site violates the attribution and share alike clauses
underyx on HNThis is some copyleft troll-level pedantry [0]. They clearly made a good effort to comply with the license. Additionally, ADSB.lol requires contributors to license their…
rafram on HNNot at all. It is the polite request to please correctly attribute the data that a company is using for their marketing stunts. I love the fact that techbros being called out for…
dirkhh on HN
Large uncompressed images waste bandwidth
From 1 comment
@Author: the link has huge pictures shown small, pre-shrinking them would be good. There's 85MB for 36 images, a lot of bandwidth wasted.
_a_a_a_ on HN
Requests
Export a report of traffic by selected region
From 1 comment
Is it possible to export a report of traffic by a selected region?
nickphx on HN
Questions
How fresh is the data and where does it come from
From 1 comment
This is really cool when you dig into how much fidelity there is here. Also, a fantastic marketing campaign for Clickhouse! As for the dataset - is this continually updated or…
windexh8er on HN
How does ADS-B data get collected over oceans
From 1 comment
How do it get ADS-B data from over the oceans? I guess it isn't satellite (which I now is used for actual tracking) since there is obviously a lot less lines over the oceans (but…
widforss on HN
What does pixel-level tile aggregation mean and how is rendering done
From 2 comments
> tiles by aggregation on a pixel level Not sure I'm understanding this. Is a "tile" then 1x1 pixels in size? If so, does the server maintain a pixel-addressable cache of the 1x1…
everybodyknows on HNThe image loading/rendering is fascinating, beginning grainy and then smoothing with time. Can you elaborate on what’s happening?
aendruk on HN
Alternatives named
airplanes.live
From 2 comments
Very pretty! As it happens, I too have started ingesting ADS-B Data into ClickHouse recently, but have nothing nearly as beautiful as this. I'm hitting the airplanes.live API…
JosephRedfern on HNThis is fantastic! Is the airplanes.live related to ADS-B exchange or is this an unrelated effort?
ptero on HN
ADS-B Exchange / globe.adsbexchange.com
From 2 comments
Fighters often don't have ADS-B, but there are lots of other military aircraft that routinely use it (transports, etc.). Go to https://globe.adsbexchange.com and press U to show…
jjwiseman on HNIf you look at https://globe.adsbexchange.com, and filter for military/interesting (the U button at the top of the screen), you'll see that at any given time there are a LOT of…
larrywright on HN
FlightRadar24
From 1 comment
Those Reaper drones show up on FlightRadar24 and ADSBExchange while patrolling over the Black Sea monitoring Crimea and beyond.
secondcoming on HN
airhoover (self-hosted ClickHouse ADS-B tracker)
From 1 comment
Very pretty! As it happens, I too have started ingesting ADS-B Data into ClickHouse recently, but have nothing nearly as beautiful as this. I'm hitting the airplanes.live API…
JosephRedfern on HN