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2012-10-10 09:24 28194440 Anonymous (Cap2ture.png 1182x801 1530kB)
see all the worlds air traffic in real time radar http://www.flightradar24.com/ locate yourself on the map and see what's flying above you

18 min later 28194846 Anonymous
Fascinating. I was thinking it would be worthless in my little corner of the globe, but 3 minutes in I saw a plane approaching my area, and sure enough, I heard it fly over at the right time. Neat.

19 min later 28194884 Anonymous
I'm sure the runways at Heathrow are bigger than that...

24 min later 28194952 Anonymous
Cool but how do I zoom in and shit?

24 min later 28194953 Anonymous
>>28194884 ... the plane icons are not to scale bro.

24 min later 28194967 Anonymous
>>28194952 >how do I zoom in Have you never used Google Maps?

24 min later 28194968 Anonymous
THIS is Technology!

25 min later 28194969 Anonymous
>>28194952 There is an auitsm button called reset on your computer.

25 min later 28194978 Kosan (hurfdurff.jpg 1280x1024 493kB)
Wow this is fucking neato OP. Thanks!

25 min later 28194979 Anonymous
>>28194967 Of course, but the typical things aren't working for some reason. I can't drag it around or zoom at all.

26 min later 28195003 Anonymous
Always wondered if someone could turn this data into some kind of google skymaps-esque AR thing.... perhaps this is the day?

27 min later 28195006 Anonymous
>>28194979 >I can't drag it around or zoom at all. Something wrong on your end then.

27 min later 28195012 Anonymous
Saw this on Daily Mail a few weeks ago. It's very entertaining.

27 min later 28195014 Anonymous
>>28195006 Yep, broken on my Nightly. Works fine in Aurora.

27 min later 28195022 Anonymous
>>28194979 Same for me.

28 min later 28195039 Anonymous
>>28195022 Use Aurora.

28 min later 28195040 Anonymous
>>28195012 >Daily Mail Let me guess...TERRORISTS COULD USE WEBSITE TO BOMB CHILDREN! HOW WILL THIS AFFECT YOUR HOUSE PRICE?!

30 min later 28195061 Anonymous
>>28195012 you could have just said you were a racist and left it at that.

30 min later 28195074 Anonymous
>>28195040 Nope. More like: >look at this cool thing >maybe you should try it You probably don'[t read it that often.

31 min later 28195082 Anonymous
>No planes coming over my home Fucking based.

31 min later 28195084 Anonymous (FUCK NO FUCK.jpg 274x105 17kB)


32 min later 28195097 Anonymous
>>28195074 Every weekend when I visit my parents. I particularly like to read Peter Hitchins: it's like /b/, except he's serious and doesn't realise he's being retarded.

32 min later 28195108 Anonymous
>mfw you could draw the US-Canada border just by looking at the density of airplanes

32 min later 28195111 Anonymous
>>28195084 >Stain upon Thames It is that,

32 min later 28195113 Anonymous
>>28195084 Oh shit oh shit oh shit

33 min later 28195115 Anonymous
No military vehicles? pff...

34 min later 28195127 Anonymous
The twitter feed is pretty cool, tweeting when planes make emergency landings, etc. https://twitter.com/flightradar24

34 min later 28195140 Anonymous
>From Minneapolis, Saint Paul >Going to Birmingham, UK >Currently flying over my home of Norwich, Eastern England. u wot m8? You missed Brum by 150 miles.

34 min later 28195142 Anonymous (Flight_Control.jpg 480x320 19kB)
I want to keep taping each plane and dragging out it's new flightpath...

35 min later 28195158 Anonymous
>>28195142 >Flight Control mah nigga

36 min later 28195170 Anonymous (-.jpg 1456x1003 760kB)
Not much...

36 min later 28195172 Anonymous
This is so neat.

36 min later 28195177 Anonymous
>>28195140 From: Colorado Springs, CO To: San Francisco, CA via: Minneapolis - Saint Paul I don't fucking think so

36 min later 28195178 Anonymous
>>28195097 >[I read the Guardian] Every weekday when I visit my work. I particularly like to read proto-feminist hornswaggle about vaginas and patriarchy: it's like reddit, except it's serious and everybody realises that they are retarded.

37 min later 28195180 Anonymous
>>28195127 And you can follow it again. Neato

37 min later 28195193 Anonymous
>Cockpit View The-last-thing-a-terrorist-sees mode?

38 min later 28195196 Anonymous
>>28195178 Jokes on you, I don't read any newspapers. Other than the Daily Wail, when I visit my parents at the weekend.

38 min later 28195198 Anonymous
>>28194440 Thanks OP! This is awesome.

41 min later 28195247 Anonymous (air.png 1920x1080 2865kB)
Wow I didnt realized there were that many in the air at one time..... Worcester Mass here, 40mi west of Boston. We have an airport but there arent any more commercial planes here because hurr lets put an airport 1000ft above sea level

41 min later 28195253 Anonymous
Not a single plane in my general area. A couple to the south of me and a bunch on the other side of Lake Ontario. Cool site either way

41 min later 28195264 Anonymous (fuckwaryo.png 520x297 33kB)
ITS FUCKING WAR NOW

42 min later 28195275 Anonymous
Attention flight CX831 from JFK to HKG.... y u fly due north?

43 min later 28195289 Anonymous
>>28195275 I dont think they can see your post from the airplane bro, too high up

43 min later 28195291 Anonymous
>>28195264 Oh shit niggas.

43 min later 28195295 Anonymous
>>28195264 Having Turkey escalate things with skirmishes like this would be a great way to get China and Russia to drop their objections to active intervention...

44 min later 28195307 Anonymous
>>28195247 Your "city" sucks. Grafton master race.

44 min later 28195309 Anonymous
I wouldn't of thought this data is freely available to the public. I call bs.

44 min later 28195326 Anonymous (futility_of_life.jpg 779x644 70kB)
>>28194440 >not using OpenStreetMap Data for the basemap

45 min later 28195337 Anonymous
>>28195309 http://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works Read.

45 min later 28195338 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Apprentice Sysadmin of
I bet I'm not the only person waiting for something to fly near and look out the window for it

45 min later 28195339 Anonymous
>>28195309 You clearly know nothing about how planes work.

45 min later 28195346 Anonymous
>>28195275 I live within walking distance of JFK

46 min later 28195349 Anonymous
>>28195338 No, you're not.

46 min later 28195350 Anonymous
>>28195338 >5 minute delay Have fun looking like an idiot as you stare into the clouds

46 min later 28195352 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Apprentice Sysadmin of (Untitled-1.jpg 5000x938 849kB)
>>28195338 baah humbug, forgot pic

46 min later 28195355 Anonymous
none for 130 miles in both direction, lol.

46 min later 28195361 Anonymous
>>28195309 http://www.flightradar24.com/how-it-works

46 min later 28195364 Anonymous
>>28195350 Most of them are real-time.

46 min later 28195365 Anonymous
>>28195307 lol k, Grafton has tripfags, Bad sign right there. enjoy your wihte trash flea market

47 min later 28195374 Anonymous
>>28195339 I realise how the technology works, however there are laws against gathering sensitive data. I'd consider the whereabouts of 60-70% of planes to be sensitive information.

47 min later 28195381 Anonymous
>>28195374 Call the cops.

47 min later 28195382 Anonymous
>>28195350 Stupid Americans.

48 min later 28195385 Anonymous
>>28194440 >locate yourself on the map and see what's flying above you HOW?

48 min later 28195394 Anonymous
>>28195350 Why not wait for a plane that is still a ways of? Why would you immediately assume that a 5 minute delay would make anyone miss a plane flying overhead?

48 min later 28195398 Anonymous
>>28195374 "this data is slightly delayed (up to 5 minutes) due to FAA regulations. Because of this delay, the planes generated from FAA data are of a different color (orange) than the planes generated from real-time data (yellow)."

48 min later 28195399 Anonymous
>tfw I live near LGA >tfw 9001 planes just by looking in the sky

49 min later 28195401 Anonymous
>>28195385 If you're using Nightly 19, use a different browser, scrolling/dragging is fucked.

49 min later 28195405 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Apprentice Sysadmin of
>>28195350 >look out window early >fog well fuck

49 min later 28195414 Anonymous
>>28195382 stupid faggot asshole non-american

50 min later 28195418 Anonymous
>>28195374 >I'd consider the whereabouts of 60-70% of planes to be sensitive information. Why? You can look at the fucking sky and see where a plane is. Why are Americlaps so fucking scared of the world?

50 min later 28195419 Anonymous
This site would be so much better if it showed altitude in realtime.

51 min later 28195433 Anonymous
>>28195418 11 Septembre 2001

51 min later 28195439 Anonymous
Neat, but land based transport such as trains, metros, and buses would be much more useful.

51 min later 28195445 Anonymous
>>28195399 No...no..could it be? A NYC /g/ent? JFK reporting in.

52 min later 28195451 Anonymous
>>28195439 Please don't use 4chan as training for your terrorist operations

52 min later 28195452 Anonymous
>>28195439 Get working on one then

52 min later 28195456 Anonymous (laughing guy.jpg 332x301 49kB)
>Europe and America have millions of planes in the air >Africa has ONE

52 min later 28195459 Anonymous
>>28195439 One could not estimate buses. Those fuckers move when they want to move and don't when they don't want to move.

52 min later 28195461 Anonymous
On a technical note, how do you do this? Is this PHP, Java or C#?

53 min later 28195468 Anonymous
My 8 year old brother recommended this site to me when I came round to visit him, I kid you not.

53 min later 28195472 Anonymous
>>28195439 Here in London, the transport department provides full real time data of where buses are, pretty useful, made myself an android app using it.

53 min later 28195480 Anonymous
>>28195461 4/10 I see what you're doing.

54 min later 28195494 Anonymous
>>28195456 >millions South America has no planes either, which can't be true.

54 min later 28195496 Anonymous
>>28195275 Polar route. Google it.

55 min later 28195502 Anonymous
>>28195461 It's actually a combination of servers for some things (apache/nginx), javascript and a php backend Source: wappalyzer

55 min later 28195506 Anonymous (5d0.png 200x200 92kB)
>>28195456 Niggers can't fly.

55 min later 28195514 Anonymous
>>28195480 I'm serious, how do keep it fast and responsive? There are 1000 planes being tracked on that site

55 min later 28195517 Anonymous (fuckwaryo1.png 1600x900 1834kB)
Spotted another terrorist.

56 min later 28195520 Anonymous
>>28195472 http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/syndication/default.aspx This shit, pretty useful.

56 min later 28195529 Anonymous
>>28195517 watch out, new york!

56 min later 28195531 Anonymous
>>28195514 Technology.

59 min later 28195578 Anonymous
>>28195517 Quick, somebody warn Hercules. Greeks still believe in Hercules, right?

59 min later 28195580 Anonymous (flightradar-ufo.png 1184x608 1062kB)
I found an UFO

1 hours later 28195616 Anonymous
TFW you spot a A380.

1 hours later 28195643 Anonymous
>>28195578 Aether also called Acmon is the god of air and winds in greek mytholgy. You're from murrica right?

1 hours later 28195647 Anonymous
>>28195170 wo wohnst du?

1 hours later 28195660 Anonymous
>>28195616 It is moving from Frankfurt to Singapore.

1 hours later 28195702 Ruby
I have no planes flying over me within a 25 km radius! >>28195461 Looks to be PHP and Javascript.

1 hours later 28195705 Anonymous
>>28195439 Add animations to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSMTransport and you would have it done, Given, it's kind of static it could still be very cool to watch.

1 hours later 28195709 Anonymous (no.jpg 1366x768 445kB)
Jesus fuck it's like thousands of little fireants crawling all over the fucking place

1 hours later 28195736 Anonymous
>>28195643 Yup, that's why I'm dumb. I actually just watched an episode of MST3K that featured Hercules and that is what made me think of him. I actually used to know all of the Greek gods and mythology when I was a wee tyke. Too bad I've forgotten all of it.

1 hours later 28195786 Anonymous (flightradar-chicken.png 1184x588 272kB)
Just a minute ago they went dead head on on each other, at same height too. Now both markers just froze....

1 hours later 28195797 Anonymous
There are probably more planes in the air in Africa etc. because only the ones with an ADS-B transponder are shown, which are mostly newer planes, older ones don't have them.

1 hours later 28195826 Anonymous
>>28195786 Oh shit oh shit

1 hours later 28195843 Anonymous
>>28195786 Oh fuck what, seriously?

1 hours later 28195909 Ruby
>>28195514 When one's dealing with workstation that can handle several billion operations per second, keeping track of a couple thousand planes' gps coordinates is nothing. What's really difficult is making your BROWSER update so damn fast.

1 hours later 28195932 Anonymous
>>28195786 awww shiiit

1 hours later 28195937 Anonymous
>>28195786 I was just looking at that then it disappeared off the map

1 hours later 28195981 Anonymous
>>28195786 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19905247

1 hours later 28195988 Anonymous
>>28195937 MAYDAY MAYDAY GOING DOWN >Evening News Good Evening, Tonights News: 2 Planes Collide over the black sea.

1 hours later 28196003 Anonymous
>mfw when I see a plane getting close to my house >poke head out window >head plane WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS MAGIC

1 hours later 28196009 Anonymous
>>28195981 >Syrian passenger plane forced to land in Turkey >The passengers were escorted off the aircraft while the cargo was searched, reports say. What about that other aircraft though?

1 hours later 28196042 Anonymous
>>28196009 it's over turkey, just search for KGL9193

1 hours later 28196044 Anonymous
>>28196009 he misquoted I think. see >>28195264

1 hours later 28196063 Anonymous
>Open link >see map >Suddenly planes appear >As many fucking planes as bees in a beehive >Each of them burning tons of combustible >Implying the earth won't be destroyes before the century is over

1 hours later 28196071 Anonymous (here.png 915x579 972kB)
Yeah, it's here now.

1 hours later 28196081 Anonymous
>>28196063 Those airplanes may look big on the map but remember that they're actually tiny.

1 hours later 28196137 Anonymous
>>28196081 >>28196081 Still several thousands planes all around the globe flying at all times. I'm telling ya we're digging our grave and shit's gonna hit the fan any time now.

1 hours later 28196147 Anonymous
>>28196137 >>>reddit

1 hours later 28196154 Anonymous
>>28196137 Why is there a fan in our grave?

1 hours later 28196158 Anonymous
>>28196137 Al Gore pls

1 hours later 28196162 Anonymous
Anyone tried cockpit view? Got a screenshot? cba to install google earth.

1 hours later 28196195 Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Apprentice Sysadmin of
>>28196162 >>28195352 kind of meh

1 hours later 28196196 Anonymous
>>28196162 no can do, loonix is not supported

1 hours later 28196218 Anonymous
>>28196137 >yfw millions of cars >yfw thousands of ships

1 hours later 28196220 Anonymous
>>28196147 Why? I'm not some liberal ecologist faggot, just saying that when shit actually hits the fan, I hope I'm there to see it. >Becoming wanderer, Waterworld style.

1 hours later 28196234 Anonymous
>>28196218 Yeah, this too.

1 hours later 28196243 Anonymous
>>28195786 KGL9193 seems to be gone now. Did it land when I wasn't paying attention or what?

1 hours later 28196265 Anonymous
>>28196220 see >>28196218

1 hours later 28196294 Anonymous
>>28196218 >millions there is more to this world than you village. try billions

1 hours later 28196351 Anonymous (Untitled.jpg 1847x1080 806kB)
Teh Hub Of Teh Wurld

1 hours later 28196393 Anonymous
>>28196351 North-west Europe master race.

1 hours later 28196407 Anonymous
>>28196393 Reporting in

1 hours later 28196419 Anonymous (what.jpg 1500x836 208kB)
arizona fag here not sure what to make of this

1 hours later 28196420 Anonymous
>>28196294 >try billions >According to a report from Ward's Auto released last week, the global number of cars exceeded 1.015 billion in 2010, jumping from from 980 million the year before. no.

1 hours later 28196458 Anonymous
http://pantheon.org/ >>28195736 Good site for mythology and stuff.

1 hours later 28196492 Anonymous
>>28196419 Probably a pilot training or something. I'm just south of there.

1 hours later 28196501 Anonymous
>>28196419 He was trying to summon cthulu

1 hours later 28196523 Anonymous
>>28196419 How to install ATi Drivers.jpg

1 hours later 28196527 Anonymous
>>28196492 cross streets?

1 hours later 28196528 Anonymous
they should add some sort of weather/radar overlay. Might be cool.

1 hours later 28196539 Anonymous
>>28196528 What is settings?

1 hours later 28196546 Anonymous
>>28196420 >Ward's Auto >Reliable

1 hours later 28196548 Anonymous
>>28196528 code it, faggot

1 hours later 28196555 Anonymous
>>28196528 You can make it show clouds and such, so...

1 hours later 28196563 Anonymous (Screenshot from 2012-10-10 17:07:22.png 978x658 685kB)
This nigaa came all the way from Franfurt All Nippon Airways!

1 hours later 28196575 Anonymous (IM SO COOL.png 496x450 73kB)
>>28196528

1 hours later 28196584 Anonymous
>>28196563 waito frankfurto go homu

1 hours later 28196596 Anonymous
>>28196546 there aren't billionS of cars, deal with it

1 hours later 28196619 Anonymous
>>28196596 billions > millions

1 hours later 28196624 Anonymous
pretty cool somehow i never thought there existed that many commercial planes

1 hours later 28196635 Anonymous
>>28196575 oh, didnt see the menu, it got hidden after I clicked a plane

1 hours later 28196663 Anonymous (flight-wat.png 1366x599 1314kB)
>N508QS >From: Gothenburg, Sweden >To: San Jose, California >Aircraft: Gulfstream G-V GLF5 What. Is this a mistake, or do Gulfstream Vs actually have that kind of range?

1 hours later 28196678 Anonymous
>>28196619 1 billion is 1000 millions

1 hours later 28196695 Anonymous
>>28196663 Probably flying North

1 hours later 28196717 Anonymous
isn't there a website that tracks satelites as well?

1 hours later 28196721 Anonymous
>>28196458 That's awesome. Thanks for the link

1 hours later 28196723 Anonymous
This is kind of neat. They don't seem to have data on the two local airports in my area though which kind of sucks.

1 hours later 28196737 Anonymous
>>28196678 1000 millions is 1000000 thousands, but we're not talking about thousands of cars...

1 hours later 28196763 Anonymous
>>28196717 >Skynet http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=25134

1 hours later 28196776 Anonymous
>>28196737 there are millions of cars, there aren't billions of cars.

1 hours later 28196800 Anonymous
>>28196776 all right, buddy. you win. i'm the stupid one here. hope it was worth it. you made a little boy cry today...

1 hours later 28196843 Anonymous
http://www.flightradar24.com/NAX61J/view IT IS LANDING OMG IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

1 hours later 28196867 Anonymous
>>28196800 you'll learn one day that it's easier to admit being wrong

1 hours later 28196911 Anonymous
>>28196867 I just did When you grow up, you'll learn how to accept victory in a humble way [spoiler] you're still a nigger faggot [/spoiler]

1 hours later 28196918 Anonymous
>>28196663 http://www.flightradar24.com/DLH2MK/view Another one landing in the middle of nowhere :D

1 hours later 28196931 Anonymous
>>28196867 Y U no read? http://wardsauto.com/ar/world_vehicle_population_110815

2 hours later 28196961 Anonymous
>>28196918 No, that's going to an airport.

2 hours later 28196967 Anonymous
>>28196911 you totally did, brah, you totall did.

2 hours later 28197022 Anonymous
>>28196527 23rd Ave and Greenway.

2 hours later 28197432 Install Gentoo (1341891881720.jpg 512x384 17kB)
This appeals to my self-diagnosed aspergers, thanks OP

3 hours later 28198855 Anonymous
>>28197432 How does one self-diagnose asspergers?

4 hours later 28200015 Anonymous
>>28198855 You declare on the internet that you have aspergers.

4 hours later 28200210 Anonymous (Screenshot_2012-10-10-18-05-27-1.png 800x1083 87kB)
It's OK plane, we can be best friends... ;_;

4 hours later 28200393 Anonymous (KAL82.png 1587x1241 2000kB)
godspeed, KAL82, godspeed

4 hours later 28200442 Anonymous
Which one of these planes contains my newegg order?

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