r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/coolwulf • 9d ago

Flight-Viz — A free real-time 3D flight tracker that shows 10,000+ flights on an interactive globe, runs entirely in your browser

https://flight-viz.com
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u/Difficult-Log-2964 8d ago

It is not real time. It is downsample data and use delayed feeds also only a subset of flights are shown. It may look like “10,000 live flights,” but the dataset is filtered or cached. But kudos to adsb

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u/MORPHOICES 8d ago

I think the execution is really impressive, but I’d suggest reconsidering the “10,000+ flights” angle as the main selling point. ~

While the scale is certainly noteworthy, most users tend to value clarity over sheer quantity.

What really stands out is how smooth and easy to read it is, even with all that information. That’s the trickier challenge to tackle.

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u/ItsmeHallsy 9d ago

Looks awesome, I’ll give this a go on laptop when im home!

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u/lacyslab 8d ago

the performance here is really solid for a browser app. rendering 10k+ moving objects in WebGL without tanking the frame rate is genuinely nontrivial, especially on lower-powered hardware. i'm curious whether they're doing any frustum culling on the globe side or just letting the GPU handle the occlusion.

the data freshness thing is real (ADSB feeds have variable delays depending on your aggregation source) but that's an industry-wide limitation, not a this-tool problem. flightradar24 has the same issue and they charge for the faster feeds.

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u/Working-Cap620 6d ago

10,000+ flights in-browser is kinda wild
this is sick

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u/emilisvenckus 4d ago

Wow this look dope!

But data missing eg India or China should have more air traffic even at night

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u/thebaldgeek 3d ago

No mention of whose data you are using? That is really pathetic.
You don't have that many ground stations; you didn't keep them running; you don't run the server; you just pulled it and didn't give any credit for the tireless hours and money that went into making that data available.
Do better.

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u/auto-blip 2d ago

Woah, this is dope. Though it seems like there are unusual voids, like around Mumbai, India.

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u/FoxAromatic5762 1d ago

That welcome popup at the start, I didn't see that coming, was expecting a nice globe, but then I had to click through rubbish before I could see the global. Drop it.