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anoved / WheresThatSat

A Twitter bot that reports current location information about satellites. (Currently on hiatus.)
https://twitter.com/wheresthatsat
MIT License
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Display multiple satellites in one response #26

Closed anoved closed 11 years ago

anoved commented 12 years ago

It could be useful to display multiple satellites in one map response - for instance, to show the configuration of a constellation such as GPS or the A-Train. Packing the data for multiple tracks into a URL (as currently done) is inadvisable, since our long URLs are already cumbersome. However, this would be feasible with a database layer, where we could store an arbitrary amount of data and retrieve it with a single key.

(The tweet response for a set of satellites would have to be different, of course, or at least clarify that it's just referring to one of multiples mapped.)

anoved commented 11 years ago

I suppose this would be more feasible now, using encoded_polyline parameters to have one parameter for each satellite path.

But, this is outside the scope of what we need.