tbrumm / flightairmap

Open source project displaying aircrafts on a map. Browse through the data based on a particular aircraft, airline or airport to search through the database. See extensive statistics such as most common aircraft type, airline, departure & arrival airport and busiest time of the day, or just explore flights. Can use FlightAware or ADS-B in SBS1 format (like dump1090) as datasource.

FlightAirMap

FlightAirMap is a fork of Barrie Spotter https://github.com/barriespotter/Web_App with map, airspaces, PDO and ADS-B support. Browse through the data based on a particular aircraft, airline or airport to search through the database. See extensive statistics such as most common aircraft type, airline, departure & arrival airport and busiest time of the day, or just explore flights.

System Requirements

To install the web app which Barrie Spotter runs, you need to have meet the following requirements:

• PHP version 5.2.3 or greater (5.3 or greater is recommended)
• MySQL version 5.0 or greater (5.6 if you want to see airspace)
• SQLite 3 (if you use ADS-B as datasource)
• An HTTP Server such as:
  • Apache 1.3+
  • Apache 2.0+

Required Extensions

The follwing is a list of PHP extensions that must be installed on your server in order for this web app to run properly:

• cURL http://php.net/curl which is used to access remote sites.
• PDO http://php.net/pdo with MySQL driver is required for database access (Maybe other databases work too, not tested). SQLite driver needed for SBS.
• JSON http://php.net/json
• ZIP http://php.net/zip needed for SBS.
• DOM http://php.net/dom
• SimpleXML http://php.net/simplexml

Install

Web install

Use install/index.php

Console install

• Create a mysql database.
• Populate the database with db/*.sql
• supply require/settings.php with your database credentials.
• If you use ADS-B as datasource, supply install/update_db.sh with your database credentials and run it. (You should go to http://www.virtualradarserver.co.uk/ and http://pp-sqb.mantma.co.uk/ to read the licences. If you find databases with better licences contact me)

Data Sources

You can choose FlightAware OR ADS-B in SBS1 (BaseStation) format.

FlightAware Api Key

• get yourself a flightAware api key http://flightaware.com/commercial/flightxml/
• supply require/settings.php with this key
• run cron.php

ADS-B

• You can use dump1090 https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090 with a RTL dongle
• run cron-sbs.php (The name is not really good, this should be run one time like a daemon, use a init script or screen)