by benlimner
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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!
- Really nice!
Absolutely killer would be integrating with https://www.liveatc.net/ or other live ATC stream. Drop down to choose ground, tower, approach/departure, center, etc.
I'll start in another tab for now.
by compass_copium
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- It looks very nice. It's a nifty project. However, as the particular kind of weirdo who has a bookmark to https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ on his phone's desktop and checks it multiple times daily, I will point out that this UI doesn't add much that the color-coded plane icons on ADS-Bx don't already do, and it is more difficult to quickly visually glean information from.
- This is quite cool, seeing taking off planes appearing and rising is cool.
Some comments:
- Is the Up axis correctly scaled? The ascent rate of planes taking off seems very steep
- Planes landing seems to get "stuck" at the beginning of a lane at about 600 feet (tracking/radar cutoff?), maybe a fix the that slightly adjusts it to ground in a landed state if a plane "stops" or disappears from the data tracking.
- This is really freaking cool.
Two asks -
(1) you should default to a busy airport, eg. Atlanta, which is the busiest in the world. They have an order of magnitude more flights landing and departing. It seems random, but I keep getting New Orleans which is 10-20x less busy than Atlanta. ATL, SFO, LAX, ... That said, the topographically diverse places like Anchorage are nice too, and the height maps on the textures are fantastic.
(2) Higher resolution satellite titles would be awesome. I have a high density flight path directly overhead and I'd love to see where I live on the map and know which way to look in real time, but the textures are about 10x too grainy to make out my street / neighborhood. Maybe you can download some high resolution tiles for free that won't be a big performance hit?
- I’m unable to access the website directly from Romania (I tried different connections). Is there any reason why this region is blocked in CloudFlare?
by urlig8746
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- Private pilot here.
This is an awesome proyect.
I cant make air spaces work, but if you manage to render them properly with TMA, CTR, AWY and other stuff, this would be incredibly useful for students.
by ryandrake
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- Very nice. My only feedback is that on a 2017 iMac (Radeon Pro 580), while rotating around, there is a brief hiccup every 1 second. Probably transferring data to the GPU periodically, but something is blocking rendering. Reproducible on Safari and Firefox.
Not reproducible on Windows Edge or Firefox, on a RX 5700, where it's consistently smooth.
- Very cool!
Buttery smooth on mobile (iPhone 14), but the slider thumbs have a vertical anlignment issue (consider using a component library that has solved all the niggles rather than rolling your own).
Also, you might consider setting the default airport according to time of day – Memphis is dead rn, whereas Heathrow is super busy and fun to watch…
Also, lots be the name!
- Very cool!
Buttery smooth on mobile (iPhone 14), but the slider thumbs have a vertical anlignment issue (consider using a component library that has solved all the niggles rather than rolling your own).
Also, you might consider setting the default airport according to time of day – Memphis is dead RN, whereas Heathrow is super busy and fun to watch…
by acrophiliac
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- As an old-timer who learned programming with punched cards, this visualization blows my mind. I want to turn it into my desktop screen saver.
by thot_experiment
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- 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.
- This is really cool!
Only enhancement I can think of would be the option of using the FAA published (and free) sectional maps instead of the satellite view. In combination with the 3d airspace you did, would be amazing!
- This is fabulous. I wonder if something like this with 3D vision could make air traffic control much safer?
- Planes flying w/ multiple transponders [1]?
[1] https://files.littlebird.com.au/Screenshot-2025-11-29-at-8.2...
by ed_mercer
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- I'm only seeing a circle that is lit up? Am I supposed to see the whole globe or is this a glitch on my system? I'm on a M1 Macbook Pro, Sonoma w/ Chrome.
- This is pretty amazing. It would be pretty cool if clicking on plane shows additional info of plan like destination
- It just sits at "Initializing 3D Space". I don't get anything else.
by 1000100_1000101
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- Neat project.
Minor usability note, zooming by pinch on a MacBook trackpad is painfully slow.
- Wow, great idea well executed, congrats
- I love turning the trail length up and watching the air traffic patterns
- Pretty cool! I made something similar a while ago, and used cesium primarily.
- As a bit of a Flight Aware addict, well done.
by purplecats
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- this is really cool! can you make it interpolate and smoothly animate based on velocity and trajectory?
by toomuchtodo
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- I love this, and would pay for native or electron app on Mac. Like Google Earth for global airspace.
- This website is really cool; I love its clean and clear information display. The expanded panel on the side has a lot of configuration options, but I don't quite understand most of it.
I also followed you on Twitter; my name is winterx.
Bro, you could try creating a 3D version of the Earth using AI and Three.js. You'll gain 10 times more attention online.
- This is amazingly cool
- Don’t use “loom” in your product/company name. ChatGPT LOVES to suggest it, and it makes it obvious you used it.
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