There's something a little off about the projection logic when you drop into the Leaflet view, you'll notice that when you pan around after zooming the planes shift their location.
When you zoom in to the street map level, the planes are practically invisible with their color and thin borders. Pretty neat though, that's a lot to load and keep smooth.
the airline flight number attached to the icon is in dark color and should be visible, also could switch to satelite view when zoom in, which is dark color
Ok, I'm on desktop now. And I notice another "issue". When I use my mouse wheel to zoom, the point that my mouse cursor is on is not stationary. This makes it hard to zoom in on e.g. a specific aircraft or landmark.
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other bugs: when i pan around (while zoomed far in), the planes arent in a fixed position on the map, they shift with the pan
ux bug: when i zoom in, it zooms into the middle of the browser window instead of where my cursor is.
Very cool demo though!
I'm surprised all the flights in the world can be represented in a <500KB api call
Edit: can’t be right. I think this is a dataset problem. China and Brazil should have more dots.
It really puts into perspective the magnitude of air traffic when you have this visualization.
Good work.
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Fantastic work!