AS Live Traffic: Track your flights live on Google Maps!

teletexta · July 15, 2013, 7:43pm

Dear AS community!

Today I would like to present to you a small private project on my part.

Some time ago I created a way to track my airline's flights live on Google Maps, similar to Flightradar24.com.

Probably because other players would also be interested in something like this, I decided to publish my flight tracker to the public.

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To use AS Live Traffic you need to upload your own flight schedule. Instructions on this are located on my website.

AS Live Traffic is available at http://meterbit.monoceres.uberspace.de

In case of wrong or missing airport data feel free to contact me via the contact form.

Some known issues that don't need to be reported:

- Via flights are not displayed correctly

- At 00:00 UTC flights may disappear or are displayed incorrectly

Have fun with AS Live Traffic,

teletexta

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AS Live Traffic is now FLT.

Check out my forum post #59 or go directly to flt.xyz.

Banff · July 15, 2013, 10:21pm

Awesome initiative! Very fun to see.

wonk · July 16, 2013, 1:27am

That is fantastic!

seair · July 16, 2013, 3:36am

This is awesome! Thank you!

VOC · July 16, 2013, 4:10am

Seriously, you deserve some credits for free! Great tool!

MD-80.com · July 16, 2013, 4:44am

It is really a nice tool and I agree that the developer should be honored! Really nice to see my planes doing their schedules over Southeast Asia!

Styrianspirit95 · July 16, 2013, 11:12pm

Great! Brilliant idea. :)

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

saewald · July 17, 2013, 5:11am

I have uploaded my schedule and am excited to see how it looks when my airline commences its flight schedule tomorrow.

There is something unusual, however. All of my planes are currently sitting at airports and waiting for the aforementioned start of flight operations; however, the map shows my 738 passing through Idaho with Flight 1304 from PDX to MCI. It's the only thing currently on the map.

Update: the plane is indeed moving. It just passed to the north of St. Anthony, Idaho. Fleet management shows it on the ground at MCI.

saewald · July 17, 2013, 5:26am

I think I figured out what is happening. On my schedule for that particular plane, Flight 1304 starts at 21:39 and ends at 01:54. It overlaps midnight, which would explain why Live Traffic is showing it. It has no way of knowing that I haven't quite starting flight ops yet.

Anyway, I am quite excited to see how it looks tomorrow!

Thanks for sharing your great idea with us. :)

endgreen · July 17, 2013, 6:50pm

Thanks for the amazing tool.

Two small suggestions:

1. One is adding a short red line to trace the move direction of the airplane. Something like:

---[A] [A]---

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[A]

2. The via flight was shown twice in the map.

teletexta · July 17, 2013, 8:34pm

Thanks for all the positive feedback so far!

Do you have an idea to improve my flight tracker?

Feel free to use the contact form on my homepage.

If there's frequent demand for it I may implement it in a future update.

Have a good time,

teletexta

buduku · July 18, 2013, 3:44pm

Great feature. Thanks!

Banff · July 18, 2013, 9:12pm

I experience some problems. I have a domestic flight between KTM - JOMSOM, which appears in the middle of Africa. I dont know if you can do something about that... pure bug :)

teletexta · July 19, 2013, 1:51am

I experience some problems. I have a domestic flight between KTM - JOMSOM, which appears in the middle of Africa. I dont know if you can do something about that... pure bug :)

Fixed JMO. Re-upload your schedule to use new data.

guitarsonfire · July 19, 2013, 9:28am

Love this all the way and uploaded 2 of my airlines straight away. But why do the planes look like they flying sideways?

Top job mate and keep it up!!

teletexta · July 19, 2013, 10:04am

Love this all the way and uploaded 2 of my airlines straight away. But why do the planes look like they flying sideways?

Top job mate and keep it up!!

Hi.

I use the same icon for all airplanes, regardless of their actual direction of flight.

In fact all airplanes fly along the great circle between start and destination airport.

guitarsonfire · July 19, 2013, 11:43am

Hi.

I use the same icon for all airplanes, regardless of their actual direction of flight.

In fact all airplanes fly along the great circle between start and destination airport.

Ok, im realy loving this and thanks again!!

petet · July 19, 2013, 11:51am

Excellent tool. You deserve some free credits for it.

saewald · July 19, 2013, 4:16pm

Excellent tool. You deserve some free credits for it.

I second that!

Nesherius · July 20, 2013, 5:09pm

This is an excellent tool!! Both thumbs up and keep up the good work :)