{"id":813,"date":"2012-09-21T17:27:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T16:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=813"},"modified":"2012-09-21T17:27:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T16:27:44","slug":"flightradar24-incredibly-addictive-way-to-follow-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"Flightradar24 – incredibly addictive way to follow all the world’s flights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Logically following on from a video time lapse of a week’s worth of flying, I heartily recommend you have \u00a0a look at Flightradar24<\/a>. It’s a website that uses\u00a0publicly\u00a0available data to show all current flights in their live positions on Google Maps. The basic view around Heathrow looks like this, but that’s not all you can see (rest after break).<\/p>\n

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Can click on a plane and see that flight’s details.<\/p>\n

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You’ll also see where it’s been…<\/p>\n

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And even a Google Earth view of what the plane can see from that altitude and position.<\/p>\n

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Logically following on from a video time lapse of a week’s worth of flying, I heartily recommend you have \u00a0a look at Flightradar24. It’s a website that uses\u00a0publicly\u00a0available data to show all current flights in their live positions on Google Maps. The basic view around Heathrow looks like this, but that’s not all you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57],"tags":[626,627,628,629],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-flightradar24","tag-fucking-awesome","tag-planes","tag-tracking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAkBY-d7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21,"url":"https:\/\/mattwpbs.com\/?p=21","url_meta":{"origin":813,"position":0},"title":"Fibre optic to the home finally on the way?","author":"MattWPBS","date":"March 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It looks like we might finally start to see Fibre To The\u00a0 Home (FTTH) in the UK, looking at reports here. 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