benlimner

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by benlimner 7mo ago
Love this story. I’m glad you found the app
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by benlimner 7mo ago
As the maker of airloom I’m super impressed with this project and would also suggest supporting it. Nice work!
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Congrats on the impending launch!
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by benlimner 10mo ago
I’m glad you noticed. I’ll still look into pinch zoom for ya regardless
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Can you give the iata codes for these? I can only find TMA in ForeFlight, and it looks like it’s uncontrolled airspace so there wouldn’t be anything represented in my app
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Done! Use ?airport=nearme
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by benlimner 10mo ago
I’ve been using them through their free api, and I got rate limited. So I’ll maybe self-host, or find a paid provider with better tiles
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by benlimner 10mo ago
I fixed the altitude scale issue.
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Fixed
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by benlimner 10mo ago
I’ll have to look into that when renaming this. I didn’t do any product research before, and it looks like there are bike saddles, power generators, and mattresses all with the same name . Any good name suggestions?
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Can you expand on that for me, I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Thanks I still have a lot of optimization to do before this is smooth across the board. It’s definitely a chrome-first app at this point.
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Yeah that is a good move. I’ll add this to the short list
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Thanks for the note. I hear you on the zoom pain. What would be your preferred means of zooming?
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Thanks for the note and follow! I’ll have to experiment with a full 3-D globe. The only problem I foresee is the lag associated with rendering the thousands of global flights all at once.
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by benlimner 10mo ago
No glitch. It’s purposefully limited upon initial load. Adjust the search radius to increase your view range
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by benlimner 10mo ago
There’s a bug where airspace doesn’t like to load after searching for an airport. I’m working on that. Try loading airspace on one of the default random airports & let me know if it still doesn’t work for you
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Maybe this will be something you look at to review interesting flights, or near misses?
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by benlimner 10mo ago
I’ll work on adding a ‘near me’ direct link. I totally missed that feature so thanks for mentioning it. Thanks for also pointing out the direct link to airport bug. I’m planning on furthering the deep link capabilities so you can save other
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Thanks for the note. I’m actively chasing down both of these. The scale change one will be easy to sort out. The black one is a little harder, sometimes the adsb data comes in corrupted.
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Sounds like a fun challenge
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Have you tried the record/playback features?
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by benlimner 10mo ago
There is some info you can get if you click the plane, then click the call sign
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Share it!
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Could, yes. I’ve tried it in 2d to pretty good success. It’s a bit low on my list of items to add, partially because I have a hunch that calculating and projecting thousands of vectors is going to cost more compute than simply accepting coo
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by benlimner 10mo ago
I saw his post too. The view count is crazy! Honestly I just smooshed a lot of different public sources of data together. There was a lot of fine tuning, and retracing my steps. No real magic. But happy to answer some questions.
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Copy this view really only works when you are following a plane or are at an airport you searched for. If that doesn’t work, ping me. I think the map tiles are a symptom of the overnight success of the app. I might have to find a new map pr
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by benlimner 10mo ago
Oh and you should check out the fighter jet training around San Antonio
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by benlimner 10mo ago
I’ll try! Also watching the high altitude balloons pop and fall straight through traffic is awesome
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by benlimner 10mo ago
No this is a known issue, there is some mitigation for it right now, but I haven’t chased down all of the edge cases. There are some places on the map where the terrain texture isn’t great, or is below the elevation of the centered airport,

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