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.
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.
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.
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Zooming on a mouse wheel on windows is nearly unusable, it goes from whole of europe to town level in one mouse wheel notch.
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.
I just modified zooming algo a lit, now it should improve your user experience.
also fixed the parallelex problem of route trail vs. the plane icon
I will take a look to fix these bugs.
I am on Mac. Will try to get on a Windows box to test this
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.
The current data is from OpenSky, mainly north america and EU.
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.
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!
Need to check my calculations. Thanks for noticing it.
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.
opensky database is limited. I need to find some data source for China and south America
The wasm file (flight_viz_bg.wasm) was 10.94 MB as reported by firefox.
I changed a higher resolution image and that is why now it is a little bigger...
Really cool! Curious to know how you made it render everything so fast with barely any loading.
Good work.
:P just optimize to the extreme
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
try change to satellite view it will be more visible
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.
If you switch to satelite view, the planes will be very visible.
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.
Could probably extrapolate positions based on heading and speed, to do some fake "real time" positions.
It render extremely fast on my side (firefox, macOS). Which UI stack are you using? Is it egui?
It's mainly eGui + WebGPU
Can you add pinch zoom?
Currently I developed this for desktop browser, so it might not work well on mobile. But I will improve and update it.
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.
I can take a look. The current zoom is zooming to screen center. Maybe I should change it to cursor location.
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!