Re: Live aeroplane tracking

A similar system, less polished but more developed, is available here: http://flightaware.com/live/

It's updated by ATC (air traffic control) tracking of radar transponders in IFR (instrument flight rules) aircraft, so it covers both commercial and general aviation. Searchable by aircraft number, flight number, or airport. It also archives flights for some period - I think a month. Here's a plane I fly sometimes: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N828MC

It's interesting to see this kind of tool as the visual display of databases. (in this case, a very busy display!)

Miles Kimball


From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Abi Searle-Jones
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 5:00 AM
To: Discussions about information design
Subject: InfoD-Cafe: Live aeroplane tracking

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is really information design. But it is awesome.

http://casper.frontier.nl/

Abi

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