FWICS there are third-party open source tools for adding live Flight data and logical behaviors to flight simulator applications.
https://fslivetrafficliveries.com/user-guide/ :
> FSLTL is a free standalone real-time online traffic overhaul and VATSIM model-matching solution for MSFS.
(... Til about FlyPadOS3 EFB: An EFB is intended primarily for cockpit/flightdeck or cabin use. For large and turbine aircraft, FAR 91.503 requires the presence of navigational charts on the airplane. If an operator's sole source of navigational chart information is contained on an EFB, the operator must demonstrate the EFB will continue to operate throughout a decompression event, and thereafter, regardless of altitude. https://docs.flybywiresim.com/fbw-a32nx/feature-guides/flypa...)
https://twinfan.gitbook.io/livetraffic/ :
> LiveTraffic is a plugin for the flight simulator X-Plane to show real-life traffic, based on publicly available live flight data, as additional planes within X-Plane. [...]
> I spent an awful lot of time dealing with the inaccuracies of the data sources, see [Limitations]. There are only timestamps and positions. Heading and speed is point-in-time info but not a reliable vector to the next position. There is no information on pitch or bank angle, or on gear or flaps positions. There is no info where exactly a plane touched or left ground. There are several data feeders, which aren't in synch and contradict each other.
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"Google Earth 3D Models Now Available as Open Standard (GlTF)" (2023) ; land, buildings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896176
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/tile/3d-til... :
> Photorealistic 3D Tiles are a 3D mesh textured with high resolution imagery. They offer high-resolution 3D maps in many of the world's populated areas. They let you power next-generation, immersive 3D visualization experiences to [...]
GMaps WebGL overlay API: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...
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From "GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38267794 :
> TIL about Raspberry-NOAA and pywws in researching and summarizing for a comment on "Nrsc5: Receive NRSC-5 digital radio stations using an RTL-SDR dongle" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38158091
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"Show HN: I wrote a multicopter simulation library in Python" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255362 :
> [ X-Plane Plane Maker, Juno: New Origins (and also Hello Engineer), MS Flight Simulator cockpits are built with MSFS Avionics Framework which is React-based, [Multi-objective gym + MuJoCo] for drone simulation, cfd and helicopters ]
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"DroneAid: A Symbol Language and ML model for indicating needs to drones, planes" (2020) https://github.com/Code-and-Response/DroneAid https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22707347 ... https://github.com/Call-for-Code/Project-Catalog