eal401
2010-08-14, 05:37 PM
I don't know if this is at all possible, but I was recently using the Google/Droid constellations application (http://www.google.com/mobile/skymap/), which if you haven't seen it maps the heavenly bodies you are pointing the phone at as you stand beneath the stars at night. Very cool.
It would seem to be a plane spotter's dream to use the same GPS backbone of that application and match the data with the (semi) real-time radar data that seems to be available on the Internet.
The resulting app, in my mind's imagination, would allow the user to look up at an airplane flying above, hold the phone up to the sky with the view screen pointed toward your face, and on the view screen would appear all the available information about the plane flying overhead (ala "AA flt. 123, 24000 ft, LGA-FLL").
Possible?
It would seem to be a plane spotter's dream to use the same GPS backbone of that application and match the data with the (semi) real-time radar data that seems to be available on the Internet.
The resulting app, in my mind's imagination, would allow the user to look up at an airplane flying above, hold the phone up to the sky with the view screen pointed toward your face, and on the view screen would appear all the available information about the plane flying overhead (ala "AA flt. 123, 24000 ft, LGA-FLL").
Possible?