Hi. I am the author of the ADSBx Add-On chrome extension. I just released v2.5 which includes an “interesting” button that displays recent flights for interesting aircraft. The database for this is currently very small. I would love to grow the database to include more. I’m thinking of different ways to group them because I’m sure there are a lot of aircraft that various people find interesting. If you have a tail number that you regularly track and think would be a nice addition to the interesting database, please let me know! If you think this feature is terrible, also please let me know. Merry Christmas!
So ... i've not yet messaged you but i'm not too thrilled about a browser extension for this purpose. First of all could you please add a disclaimer that you're not affiliated with adsbexchange on the extension page. Really a disclaimer isn't quite good enough, the addon name should be changed to for example: "DataLookup for ADSBx" This makes it immediately obvious it's not made by adsbexchange. Additionally i'd like to inform you that i won't accomodate such an extension when making changes to the webpage, in other words .... it might break. In regards to interesting aircraft, start a public database that has a couple of flags, maybe i'll use something like that in the future. Flags could be law enforcement / medevac / rich people / government ... whatever really.
Hey thanks for the reply. I added a disclaimer to the extension landing page just now. It will probably take between 24 hours and a week to update. As of v2.5.0 there is also a disclaimer in the extension's popup.html/extension icon.
I don't feel qualified to answer this question, but am going to toss a few thoughts into this subject just the same.... I am right now in 'interesting' aircraft database hell for my personal project. There are two main obstacles to my task. 1. There is no 'master' database of aircraft. Half the world uses the mictronics database and the other half use the BaseStation.sqb (And in the latter case, there are a million different versions and each owner claims that only theirs is accurate and up to date). Currently, I just hand merge the two. The other issue is that each database has different information in them about each ICAO and each marks 'interesting' aircraft in a different way. 2. What you define as 'interesting' someone else wont. Currently I have 455,512 aircraft in my database. All of them are interesting to someone.
The disclaimer is live on the extension page. Google has been super quick to review these lately which is nice. Also, I totally understand the crux of having a single database for what is considered interesting. I originally wanted to make it so that each individual user could set their own interesting filter based on aircraft only they wanted to track. Being a non-developer, that task was too much for me to figure out. Maybe someday.
Thanks @jamesgott! @wiedehopf is the developer of tar1090 and the ADSBx map ui! Appreciate the disclaimer, it will make support issues much easier to differentiate.
