Travel-Tracker

Track various flights, buses, GPS streams etc and visualize on one convenient Javascript map

Tech Used

• Leaflet.js for mapping
• Vanilla Javascript and HTML/CSS
• FlightAware API
• Firebase for storing UIDs and flights
  • A Trie stores this stuff on the frontend
• Node.js with Restler and Express for a server

Setup

Website

Use localhost (Python's SimpleHTTPServer works great) on the directory for whatever your favorite port is. Make sure to change config.ports.allow under server/config.js to that value. The map is currently setup to update every 30 seconds: you are free to change that.

Server

npm install in the directory then run node endpoint.js. Make sure to setup your config.js file appropriately. An example is provided to help you.

Firebase

Setup your firebase with a key of vals and under it objects with pairs of this form: UID: flightCode. For example, it could look like this.

{
  "vals" : [ {
    "C39" : "FFT1263"
  }, {
    "B7P" : "SKV7660"
  } ]
}

Future versions will allow the specification of which flight under that code.

Authors

• Ben Cooper - bencooper222
• John Valin - johnvalin
• Nash Zhou - Crystal-V

License

MIT.