AIRAC RuntimeError about traffic

[xoolive]

Hello,

I am sorry you encounter this issue. In theory, you should be able to download from OpenSky without AIRAC data. I will investigate when I am back, but before that could you help by (please) copy-pasting here the smallest piece of code that creates this error?

Thank you

[babetoduarte]

Hello Xavier,

I get this error while trying to run the example that is shown in the project's Readme:

traffic opensky 2018-01-01T06:00 -s 2018-01-01T08:00 -b Andorra -o andorra.pkl

Here's the dump:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/jad/anaconda3/envs/python3/bin/traffic", line 11, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/Users/jad/anaconda3/envs/python3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/traffic/console/__init__.py", line 62, in main
    return mod.main(args.args)
  File "/Users/jad/anaconda3/envs/python3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/traffic/console/opensky.py", line 76, in main
    opensky_data(**vars(args))
  File "/Users/jad/anaconda3/envs/python3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/traffic/console/opensky.py", line 15, in opensky_data
    kwargs["bounds"] = airac[bounds]
  File "/Users/jad/anaconda3/envs/python3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/traffic/data/airspaces/airac.py", line 301, in __getitem__
    return next(self.search(name, operator.eq), None)
  File "/Users/jad/anaconda3/envs/python3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/traffic/data/airspaces/airac.py", line 308, in search
    self.init_cache()
  File "/Users/jad/anaconda3/envs/python3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/traffic/data/airspaces/airac.py", line 79, in init_cache
    raise RuntimeError(msg)
RuntimeError: Edit file /Users/jad/Library/Application Support/traffic/traffic.conf with AIRAC directory

and here's what my traffic.conf file looks like:

[global]
 airac_path =
 opensky_username = MyOpenSkyUsername
 opensky_password = MyOpenSkyPassword
 [plugins]
 enabled_plugins = Bluesky, CesiumJS

Thank you very much for your help.

Happy Holidays!

[xoolive]

I see! That’s my mistake but it should be very easy to fix... 👍
It’s not a problem in the library but in the script. I can probably push the fix in about 48h.

[xoolive]

@babetoduarte you may try now (git pull then python setup.py install)

[babetoduarte]

@xoolive thank you very much for the quick fix. I was able to run the example code correctly once I updated my local copy of traffic.

I have one last question, I am trying to obtain flight track data over the US, however I can't seem to figure out the proper bound name I must use in order to gather OpenSky data over this region. Is there any documentation on this? Can I provide coordinates for a bounding box instead of a name?

Thank you very much for your help.

Happy New Year!

[xoolive]

@babetoduarte Yes you can try option -b " -127,24,-65,50" (order is west/south/east/north)

Note the classical bracket-space-hyphen trick if you want to pass a negative number that is not an argparse argument:

-b " -127,24,-65,50"
   ^^^

Also, I usually go to https://www.openstreetmap.org/, click "export" then get a way to get the coordinates of a bounding box (that's how I came with those numbers)

If it gets too complex with the command-line tool, it will probably be easier to use the library and look at the help of each function. (This specific function should be properly documented)