Nice website, but this is a bit more than you said when you contacted ADSBx for an API key. Offering API redistribution of ADSBx data so that commercial businesses can bypass supporting ADSBx is NOT ACCEPTABLE ENTHUSIAST USE. You likely aren't feeding or paying to use ADSBx API, but want to hand out an API that competes with how ADSBx pays for operations? I assume you are giving ADSBx data to Spotting Log since he was asking for data a while back but is also not contributing or supporting ADSBx. This is the shit we deal with non-stop. Do you think it costs nothing to aggregate thousands of data feeds, to serve 500,000-750,000 active users a month, to maintain 60TB of data archive, plus the hundreds of man hours to make it all work? You are asking people not to scrape your data and use it commercially. That always works. When it was Spotting Log or you wanting to do stuff for enthusiasts , ADSBx supports all kinds of enthusiast apps, it's fine, but offering an API that allows bypassing ADSBx data licensing is a bit much. I'll give you 48 hours to respond then I'm revoking the API key.
I appreciate that. "I would also like to add that we have offered to let you have a return feed of the things we are working out - including live flight information, aircraft route history, aircraft photos, estimated destination of aircraft, aircraft at airport, recent arrivals, recent departures and statistics of airports, aircraft and operators. This is still available to you should you wish. I would disagree that this is in competition to ADSBx; personally I think it would be a great supplement to the flight data you make available." This is not useful, productive, or reliable - no matter what you say we cannot rely on this as something to provide to users. ADSBx can't use an API from you that we have to relay or otherwise depend on external servers outside our control. If you want to opensource or share code privately so ADSBx can run it that's fine. But we cannot rely on others, historically it has not worked out. "We did not and do not intend on handing it out to corporations or making profitability from this." It doesn't matter what you intended. It will happen. It happens all the time here at ADSBx. I catch people all the time pretending to be an enthusiast then we look at access logs, do some monitoring, and find out it's a hedge fund or some commercial business that doesn't want to license. ADSBx doesn't charge commercial businesses much at all, 1/50th of the commercial ADS-B sites. On a positive note, Planespotters.net might also give you photo API access as well.
I hope their database is better than the crapfest FR24 has. A Cirrus SR20 flew over me this morning while I was out and about and I thought I knew who it was and wanted to check so I could swing over to the airport and say hi. Since I was away from home and my VPN is jacked right now, I launched their app on my phone to really quick. According to them I was mistaken and it wasn't an SR20 at all...it was a Delta 727. I don't recall the 727 being a single piston engine, but who am I to question them?♂️
Hard to say, @callum3242, what database are you using? ADSBx and the ADSBx community is contributing to the Mictronics readsb database, which is public. Please post corrects in ADSBx discord. https://github.com/Mictronics/readsb-protobuf/tree/dev/webapp/src/db https://discord.com/invite/UEXSqDh
