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		neop1x on Aug 18, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What’s Flying Above Us? Interesting project, thanks! But it is also important to mention AdsbExchange as the data source. They have quite a big expenses on AWS to keep it running and unlike FlightRadar24 or similar they doesn't censor any aircraft or take blocking requests by aircraft owners which is reasonable considering this data is public an anyone with sdr-compatible dvb-t dongle can receive them.

Aeolun on Aug 18, 2020 | [–]

That is a very unfortunate name. I don’t think I’d ever click a link called adsbexchange if I didn’t already know what it was.

jjwiseman on Aug 18, 2020 | [–]

Yes, ADS-B Exchange is part of the foundation that makes this possible.

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