AircraftList.json - Cos and Cot fields?

Discussion in 'Feeding' started by James Leahy, Feb 2, 2018.

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  1. James Leahy

    James Leahy New Member

    I couldn't help but notice that the acList from the "AircraftList.json"endpoint does not contain the aircrafts trail fields ("Cot" and "Cos").

    Looking at the data fields descriptions page of the adsbexchange website there is a description for the "TT" field but nothing related to "Cos" or "Cot". On the virtualradarserver json documentation page there are descriptions for the "Cos" and "Cot" fields however they do not show up in the data.

    If I click on a plane on the Global Radar View I can see it's trail so I know that the data is still there.

    Does anyone know why the fields "Cot" and "Cos" are missing from the endpoint?

    Edit -

    After reading the documentation it appears that trails are omitted from the AircraftList.json by default. A query string parameter specifying what format of trails to be returned must be supplied in the request. Otherwise no trails are returned.
     
    Last edited: Feb 2, 2018
  2. James

    James Guest

    Correct. Everything working as expected?
     
  3. James Leahy

    James Leahy New Member

    Yes it is, the trails are a nice touch!