Tracking the International Space Station (ISS) Using NASA API, Carto DB, and then maybe D3

[radhikapc]

Being a Space enthusiast, I have been following the development of ISS since it's conception. I get an alert in my Inbox when it crosses the Santa Clara - Sunnyvale area ! I am following the humans on board on ISS via twitter feeds. Well, after learning to play around with API, then Carto, I thought why don't I try plotting its movement across the sky for a day. In fact, ISS makes 16 rotation around earth daily. To get an interesting animation of the movement of ISS, I collected data by using the http://open-notify.org APIs (thanks Stephen for helping me fix the issues !). I initially tried a simple plotting on Carto, but the image didn't look that attractive ! Yes, I did a spatial-join of a shape file of the globe (thanks Nicky for directing me to the right one!) and the CSV file I have created .

The image captures the movement for a day, implies 16 rotation around earth.

Thanks to Soma, who suggested to try Torque feature on Carto. Now it looks better, but I need to make lots of modification to make it look pretty. I wish to do it on D3.

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