For those wondering the license is a CC-NC-ShareAlike type
The bigger issue is that in first world buying a sdr dongle for giggles is viable while in poor countries less so. A raspberry and dongle is a substantial investment if you’re earning 1/20th of a US salary. Don’t think there is an issue with willingness to share data
Little bit of trivia regarding the "strange hole near Mexico City"[1] from the README.
This is a 12-kilometer exclusion zone around the highly active Popocatépetl volcano to prevent incidents stemming from volcanic activity.
[1] https://adsb.exposed/?zoom=9&lat=19.1139&lng=261.3813&query=...
Is "red" high or low velocity? And as an example, I do not understand what the "Boeing vs. Airbus" selection is trying to represent, as well as how "Altitude & Velocity" are supposed to be displayed at the same time.
Project certainly requires a bit more care if any discussion should happen around it.
Pick a flight you know (maybe one near yer home) and play with the options -- what patterns emerge? Red draws attention, “Boeing vs. Airbus” compares data, while “Altitude & Velocity” combines them. Explore hands-on; discovery often makes insights click better than instructions.
count() AS total,
sum(desc LIKE 'BOEING%') AS boeing,
sum(desc LIKE 'AIRBUS%') AS airbus,
sum(NOT (desc LIKE 'BOEING%' OR desc LIKE 'AIRBUS%')) AS other,
greatest(1000000 DIV {sampling:UInt32} DIV zoom_factor, total) AS max_total,
greatest(1000000 DIV {sampling:UInt32} DIV zoom_factor, boeing) AS max_boeing,
greatest(1000000 DIV {sampling:UInt32} DIV zoom_factor, airbus) AS max_airbus,
greatest(1000000 DIV {sampling:UInt32} DIV zoom_factor, other) AS max_other,
pow(total / max_total, 1/5) AS transparency,
255 * (1 + transparency) / 2 AS alpha,
pow(boeing, 1/5) * 256 DIV (1 + pow(max_boeing, 1/5)) AS red,
pow(airbus, 1/5) * 256 DIV (1 + pow(max_airbus, 1/5)) AS green,
pow(other, 1/5) * 256 DIV (1 + pow(max_other, 1/5)) AS blue
SELECT round(red)::UInt8, round(green)::UInt8, round(blue)::UInt8, round(alpha)::UInt8
The redder the pixel, the more Boeing planes there.The greener the pixel, the more Airbus planes there.
The bluer the pixel, the more non-Boeing/Airbus planes there.
The less transparent the pixel, the more planes in total.
White means all planes fly there, yellow means Boeing and Airbus dominate, red means Boeing dominates, green means Airbus dominates, cyan means Airbus+others, magenta means Boeing+others, etc.
I've recently added more datasets, "Places", "Birds", "Photos", and "You".
Also, a hint - the rectangular selection tool lets you generate custom reports for a location.
But it is easy to figure it out from the source code. The source code is here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/blob/main/index.h...
For anyone who just wants to skip to the answer, I found it in the pull requests / issues: https://github.com/ClickHouse/adsb.exposed/issues/47
+ There is an attribution in the top-down corner of the map.
https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Planes&zoom=9&lat=38.2165&lng=...
Please just give me a cURL command I can run... (perhaps some services have that, I haven't looked that hard).
(other sites are corporate or have sold out [adsbexchange], happy to contribute reasonable costs to get a feed, no affiliation, I just like sensor feeds, thank you for the offer and consideration)
This is sort of an example of what I'm talking about though, this script seems to install a bunch of random stuff but what I really want is an API to incorporate into our own recording process. As far as I can tell from a brief look, this binary (?) is downloaded from somewhere and run: https://github.com/airplanes-live/feed/blob/main/scripts/air... but I just want to incorporate it in the system we're using already when I finally get to improving it from a 10-minute hack job from when I set it up as a side project that ended up being really useful (https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17522)
I tried to check the kind of flights they flew in the world's dangerous airport (Lukla, Nepal)[0] and found they use ATR-72 series.
[0] https://adsb.exposed/?dataset=Planes&zoom=12&lat=27.7136&lng...
> This website (technology demo) allows you to aggregate and visualize massive amounts of air traffic data. The data is hosted in a ClickHouse database and queried on the fly. You can tune the visualizations with custom SQL queries and drill-down from 50 billion records to individual data records.
blakesterz•4h ago
Also, .exposed has been a TLD since 2014? I'm not sure I've seen another .exposed site.
zparky•4h ago