14 comments

  • coolwulf 0 minutes 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.
  • whywhywhywhy 22 minutes 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 9 minutes 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 2 minutes ago
        I will take a look to fix these bugs.
    • coolwulf 16 minutes ago
      I am on Mac. Will try to get on a Windows box to test this
  • christophilus 27 minutes 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 10 minutes ago
      opensky database is limited. I need to find some data source for China and south America
  • ge96 2 hours 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 2 hours ago
      The current data is from OpenSky, mainly north america and EU.
  • Levitating 42 minutes ago
    The wasm file (flight_viz_bg.wasm) was 10.94 MB as reported by firefox.
    • coolwulf 28 minutes ago
      I changed a higher resolution image and that is why now it is a little bigger...
  • aduffy 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
      Need to check my calculations. Thanks for noticing it.
  • Glubker 1 hour ago
    Really cool! Curious to know how you made it render everything so fast with barely any loading.

    Good work.

    • coolwulf 1 hour ago
      :P just optimize to the extreme
  • maxwg 2 hours 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 29 minutes ago
      try change to satellite view it will be more visible
  • ddoolin 2 hours 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 1 hour ago
      If you switch to satelite view, the planes will be very visible.
  • paulnsorensen 2 hours 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.

  • lwansbrough 2 hours ago
    Could probably extrapolate positions based on heading and speed, to do some fake "real time" positions.
  • pstomi 4 hours ago
    It render extremely fast on my side (firefox, macOS). Which UI stack are you using? Is it egui?
    • coolwulf 4 hours ago
      It's mainly eGui + WebGPU
  • amelius 2 hours ago
    Can you add pinch zoom?
    • coolwulf 2 hours ago
      Currently I developed this for desktop browser, so it might not work well on mobile. But I will improve and update it.
      • amelius 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
          I can take a look. The current zoom is zooming to screen center. Maybe I should change it to cursor location.
      • pohl 2 hours 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!

  • coolwulf 6 hours ago
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