Live Flight Tracking
Watch hundreds of aircraft move in real-time over New York City, one of the world's busiest airspaces. Live ADS-B data from OpenSky Network stored in Arc.
Live Data
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OpenSky Network + Arc
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Real-Time
ADS-B data from OpenSky Network
NYC Area
JFK, Newark, LaGuardia airspace
Arc DB
Parquet storage, sub-second queries
How It Works
Data Source: OpenSky Network provides free ADS-B aircraft position data via their REST API with OAuth2 authentication
Ingestion: Python script polls the API every 30 seconds and writes to Arc using MessagePack columnar format
Storage: Arc stores data in compressed Parquet files with automatic time-based partitioning
Visualization: Map updates every 30 seconds showing actual aircraft positions from the database
