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A .NET web server that can plot the positions of aircraft on a map
http://www.virtualradarserver.co.uk/
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Find a new source for embedded thumbnails. #54

Closed bfayers closed 3 years ago

bfayers commented 3 years ago

The removal of thumbnails using airport-data.com (09d3f72) is a great feature which I miss in the newest previews.

I am wondering if a new source for images could be found? Airliners.net and JetPhotos.com have large amounts of images available, though seem to be lacking APIs.

vradarserver commented 3 years ago

If you ever find one then let me know. As you mention, airliners.net and jetphotos don't have freely available APIs and I don't want to scrape web pages for thumbnails.

If you want to continue using airport-data.com thumbnails then there is a plugin that puts them back, it can be found here:

Windows: https://github.com/vradarserver/vrs-other-plugins/releases/tag/latest-airportdata-thumbnails-windows Mono: https://github.com/vradarserver/vrs-other-plugins/releases/tag/latest-airportdata-thumbnails-mono

Use at your own risk.

bfayers commented 3 years ago

If I do find another source I'll probably open a PR; didn't notice the plugin - thanks for the link

avgeeklucky commented 2 years ago

planespotters.net has an API: https://www.planespotters.net/photo/api