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I tried to do this years ago while working at TV station with a helicopter and despite owning (well, leasing) the chopper and owning the microwave equipment the
by graupel 6y ago
I tried to do this years ago while working at TV station with a helicopter and despite owning (well, leasing) the chopper and owning the microwave equipment the vendor would not release a way to decode the lat/long data used to track the video antenna, which I wanted to pull into a google map to show the choppers position.
So instead I gave the pilot an early smartphone (this was 2006) set up to use cellular to send back lat/long data and pulled it in that way, resulting in this:
https://techcrunch.com/2008/05/16/become-a-virtual-newscopter-passenger-on-airfox-live/ https://techcrunch.com/2008/05/16/become-a-virtual-newscopte...
- skeletonjelly 6y agoVery cool! Is there a copy of that video linked in the article somewhere? It 404s
- graupel 6y agoI found a screenshot! https://www.newscaststudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/airfox.jpg https://www.newscaststudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/ai...