Traffic Management Tool for VATSIM

What is it?

It's my attempt at making something to help manage traffic as an ADC/Area coordinator. Right now, it doesn't do any of that stuff, but it does draw pretty maps.

How can I use it?

Installing

It's built in nodejs, so for starters you'll need to go install the latest version of that from https://nodejs.org/en/download/

Then:

• Clone this repository to a folder
• Run npm install in the repository folder using your terminal of choice. This will install the dependencies of the app
• You'll need to put the Airports.txt file from the GNS430 nav dataset into ./navdata/ for airport checking
• That's all of the installation that is required!

Usage

Collecting data from the VATSIM datafeed

• Run npm run watch

Working with live data

• Run npm run live
• It'll download from the datafeed, and automatically use any data that already exists that is less than 4 hours old

Working with past data

• Run npm run past
• Obviously to work with past data, you will need past data

Making pretty maps

• The construction of pretty maps is dependent on two things:
  • Data - this comes from the datafeed, so you need to collect some before trying to use it
  • A Mapbox API token
    • Get this at https://mapbox.com/ - it should look something like pk.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
    • Put it in config.js as mapboxToken
• Run npm run server
• Navigate to localhost:8080 to find the maps server.

Once you have the server running, here's a list of things you can do

Heat map

• http://localhost:8080/map/all/heat
• (it's a really bad heatmap, because all heatmaps are bad)

Flight line map

• http://localhost:8080/map/all
• It's an actually nice line map, and looks like the screenshot above