Up in the Air

Final Project for the WUR-course on Geo-Scripting (GRS-33806)

Team Maja - Simon Veen & Gijs Peters

This project harvests realtime flight data, creates flightpaths, and sets up a webserver for displaying this information realtime on a Leaflet surface.

It contains two apps, bot/app.py and map/app.py. The first starts up a harvesting bot for harvesting and processing aircraft data.

The second starts a Flask webserver hosting a Leaflet map for displaying these data near-realtime.

Install instructions

to install on a clean Ubuntu 16.04 machine, open your terminal, and execut the lines below:

mkdir git
cd git
git clone http://github.com/GBPeters/upair
cd upair
chmod +x install_upair.sh
./install_upair.sh

A PostgreSQL/PostGIS will be set up for local use, and required tables and roles will be created. Now, to start up the harvesting bot, use:

python bot/app.py opensky -i 50

This will start an OpenSky network harvester with harvest interval of 50 seconds

NOTE: setting this interval to less than 10 seconds will result in an IP-block.

If you have collected some data, fire up the webserver with

python map/app.py

Open your browser and surf to http://localhost:5000

If something goes wrong during installation, or you need help, feel free to contact us.