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Dump1090 is a simple Mode S decoder for RTLSDR devices
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UI showing _ infront of identities #85

Closed diezel99 closed 4 years ago

diezel99 commented 4 years ago

Screen Shot 2020-10-02 at 4 27 00 PM

mutability commented 4 years ago

These are aircraft which are not transmitting a callsign; the registration with a leading _ is shown instead.

diezel99 commented 4 years ago

For the life of me, I didn't see that stated anywhere.

mutability commented 4 years ago

Yeah I don't think it is documented (and could be clearer)

mutability commented 4 years ago

@eric1tran can we do something clearer here e.g. use parentheses or make it italic or something like that?

ericflightaware commented 4 years ago

This is the same behavior as tar1090 and parallels the leading ~ formatting model for anonymous codes. A little in-line help/docs would go a long way here and could be used in a lot places.

eric1tran commented 4 years ago

I'd like to find a good place for SkyAware usage documentation. I started this as a placeholder https://github.com/flightaware/dump1090/tree/master/public_html but www.flightaware.com or integrating it into SkyAware itself would be more ideal.

We can do it for the next release as we add more features/changes.

mutability commented 4 years ago

parallels the leading ~ formatting model for anonymous codes

The leading ~ for non-ICAO addresses is an internal representation thing; it gets trimmed off by skyview and italics are used instead (at least in the table rows - the same really needs to be done in the aircraft detail pane too). We should do something similar for replacing ident with reg, a leading _ is unclear because it looks like data from the aircraft itself and not a difference in data type.