I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D

Posted by kewonit 11 hours ago

I converted 2D conventional flight tracking into 3D(aeris.edbn.me)

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benaguirre 10 hours ago||

this is awesome!

owlcompliance 6 hours ago||

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superkuh 10 hours ago|

See also, https://objectiveunclear.com/airloom.html?airport=MSP . Another very nice 3D viewer for adsb info.

Both this post's viewer and the older one I linked directly above have greatly exaggerated vertical scaling. It is not proportional to the distances on the map. With actual 1:1 height scale all these planes, even the stratospheric jets, would be much closer to the ground.

kewonit 10 hours ago|

Currently it servers more aesthetically than accuracy when it comes to vertical scaling, its on the feature list to add 1:1 height scale, it isn't as pleasing to look at but definitely a must have.

wolvoleo 9 hours ago|||

I think the current scale is a good solution. Otherwise the vertical data is too compressed when you zoom out

superkuh 10 hours ago|||

Nice to hear. Just as an aside, the one I linked already has a (deep in the settings) setting to adjust the vertical scaling. But even at minimum 0.2 ~ 0.3 scale it's still not 1:1.

kewonit 9 hours ago||

So I did play around with it for a while, and one thing that I kept running into is how dysfunctional the entire thing becomes at that scale, it looks really good surprisingly, yet the usability gets really limiting, and makes it X times harder to use, a logarithmic solution might be better here I believe.