Observed arrival · 2026-11-03
Argus: point your phone at the planes
A phone-based aircraft-spotting demo uses ADS-B data and the phone’s sensors to label known aircraft in the sky, with sightings exportable as JSON or CSV.
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- Phone-based aircraft spotters
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- The page says public-network requests use a location rounded to about six miles, while exact GPS stays on-device.
Field notes
Aircraft positions are described as ADS-B broadcasts, decoded either by a FlightAware stick or drawn from a public volunteer-antenna network. The phone combines that feed with GPS, compass direction, and tilt to place labels against the camera view. The page says public queries use a location rounded to roughly six miles; sightings remain on the device until exported, and an aircraft may lack a label because it is not broadcasting.
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✦PrettyNotable craft visible
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