jheising

So there are some free sources I found for departure and arrival destinations, but they were wrong more than they were right, so unfortunately the only way to get reliable information is from a paid source. I may offer this at some point as a paid option down the road if popularity continues.

Very interesting! Most likely bad or incorrect altitude or position data from an aircraft transponder.

I LOVE the idea of applying Dolbear's Law, that would be such a cool touch.

It's meant to be relatively random. The idea is to show you some well known cities and landmarks so that you can get an idea where you are, but then some random curiosities just for the sake of exploring and seeing new things.

If you can tell me where you saw the wrong names for locations I would love to look into it. Thanks!

Thanks for the report, we'll look into it!

Great idea!

Somewhat. It currently simulates wind speed and direction for the movement of clouds. It also supports the ability to simulate cloud cover percentage (in the advanced options)— the reason it's not on by default is because we want users to get the best view of the sky no matter what the weather is like outside, so we default to 20%.

Other factors like rain could happen in the future.

I will look into this, thanks! In the meantime I'm going to implement a fallback to 2D tiles which has much higher quota limits. Try to stop the bleeding first.

Since I'm here, the why:

When I was a kid — back when travelling still felt new and exciting — I would see a plane crossing the early evening sky and try to put myself in it. Not to go anywhere in particular. I just wanted to know what the world looked like from up there, right then, to whoever was sitting by that window.

The feeling was strongest at sunset. I'd be watching a good one from the ground and think about how much better it had to be from up there, above the haze, with the light coming in level. The same sunset from a perspective I couldn't reach.

Travel has lost most of that. Airports, queues, delays: everything wrapped around flying has got steadily worse. But the flying itself hasn't changed. An hour into a clear evening flight, forehead against the glass, looking down at a world you almost never see from that angle, and it is still one of the quietly moving experiences I know.

Stowaway is that part, without the rest of it.

Hi all! I'm the creator of Stowaway.live and I really appreciate you posting it here.

All this attention has maxed out my Google 3D Tiles quota, so the ground textures in ride-along mode are being throttled. Everything else works — sky, aircraft and satellite tracking, sound — it's just the terrain that may come in flat or missing. I'm working on a caching layer and a proper fallback rather than just buying my way out of it, and I'd take suggestions if anyone's solved this before.

Thanks for checking it out!

The Maker Channel Action doesn't support authenticated requests, at least anything beyond something you could send in the URL or body of the message. We do this to prevent people from using it to spoof requests to public authenticated services that might view such behavior as slightly "shady". The Maker Channel is really meant for prototyping and experimenting and so we've limited the capabilities to keep the uses in that realm. Hope that helps!

Not exactly sure what you mean by long-polling in this context. Do you mean a client making calls to the API at regular timed intervals to check the status? Or do you mean the server making calls to an endpoint URI when an event occurs?

Yeah it's something that is browser dependent. I wouldn't call it a bug, but it is an annoyance. It's a decision we had to make in order to keep Freeboards secure for customers who don't want their data to be seen. But it does require the API to be available in HTTPS as well.

It's something we'll have to fix— maybe an option to turn off SSL for the freeboard, or like you say, create a proxy.

We'll look into it and have a solution soon.