7 ms·

I have a receiver that I use to feed the ADS-B Exchange network. In return I get an API key that I use to power a collection of twitter bots that tweet whenever

• jjwiseman 7y ago
  And if you want a view into some of the current status of the ADS-B Exchange multilateration (MLAT) network, check out the sync stats page: http://www.adsbx.org/sync/ http://www.adsbx.org/sync/ Select a region to see the details. For example, here are the feeder health stats for the southwestern U.S.: http://www.adsbx.org/sync/1B/ http://www.adsbx.org/sync/1B/ And here's the map of feeder locations in that region: http://www.adsbexchange.com/coverage-1B/ http://www.adsbexchange.com/coverage-1B/
  • adsbx-james 7y ago
    Glad you are putting that data to good use!
  • not_exactly__ 7y ago
    I follow your account on twitter. I love these!
• Rebelgecko 7y ago
  I believe OpenSky also doesn't censor their data, although in some areas I've looked at their coverage isn't quite as good as ADS-B Exchange. IIRC OpenSky is also a lot more permissive if you want to use their API
  • jjwiseman 7y ago
    I know that there's a big financial incentive to censor aircraft data, and I haven't seen an explicit statement from OpenSky on their policies, so... I'm not sure.
  • adsbx-james 7y ago
    Unfortunately OpenSky does filter data (donors and sponsors to name a few) and is nothing more than a tax dollar black hole and front for commercially selling data while supporting the for profit Sero Systems. ADSBx offered to share data, a data swap. Opensky was not interested and told us - "go fuck yourselves".
• nilkn 7y ago
  While an unfiltered network is cool, am I the only one who thinks it’s utterly reasonable for aircraft owners to want some basic level of privacy? I always have found it strange that communities of folks who very much don’t want to be tracked themselves are also very interested in aggressively tracking others.
  • zik 7y ago
    Running aircraft has significant externalized costs on society so it's probably not unreasonable that people should be able to keep track of that.
  • jjwiseman 7y ago
    Unsurprisingly, there's a difference between tracking any individual and tracking aircraft. Essentially nobody is interested in aggressively tracking aircraft owned by dentists, doctors, skydivers, or whatever. The interest is in things like tracking the movements of dictators (https://twitter.com/C4ADS/status/1156234995876413441 https://twitter.com/C4ADS/status/1156234995876413441), uncovering large scale secret aerial surveillance programs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9646065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9646065), corrupt politicians and money launderers (https://tech.occrp.org/ https://tech.occrp.org/), and exposing rendition flights (https://gijn.org/planespotting-a-guide-to-tracking-aircraft-around-the-world/ https://gijn.org/planespotting-a-guide-to-tracking-aircraft-...). Tracking aircraft simply is not the same as tracking, say, all my neighbors.
    • dpe82 7y ago
      If your neighbors are traveling by personal aircraft then it is very much the same thing. There are a lot of privately owned GA aircraft and many of us don't particularly like everyone snooping on us. Many in this community get awfully nervous about things like police surveillance of cars, license plate tracking, etc. The Police say they need it just for special cases like crime, but we all know the dangers of dragnet surveillance. This is also dragnet surveillance; it's the same violation of privacy if the mode of transportation is different. Many on this forum think it's fun though because the mechanism is a bit nerdy and they aren't the ones being surveilled.
• Havoc 7y ago
  Quite a bit of volume on those feeds given that it's specific cities. Colour me surprised
• LegendaryPatMan 7y ago
  Why am I not surprised to find this here?
• LargoLasskhyfv 7y ago
  tar1090 pleases me. Thank you for bringing that up!