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Congrats on the impending launch!


Thanks Ben! Went straight here after I seen your reply on X :D


Can you give the iata codes for these? I can only find TMA in ForeFlight, and it looks like it’s uncontrolled airspace so there wouldn’t be anything represented in my app


I fixed the altitude scale issue.


Fixed


Can you expand on that for me, I’m not sure I understand what you’re getting at


Ask ChatGPT to generate product or business names for you. A lot of them contain the word “loom”. I know someone who recently vibe coded a thing and had an AI name it and it also has “loom” in it.

I’m not suggesting that that’s what happened with this project. I have no idea how much AI they used for any of it. But “loom” seems to appear in a lot of ChatGPT generated product names lately.


I’ll have to look into that when renaming this. I didn’t do any product research before, and it looks like there are bike saddles, power generators, and mattresses all with the same name .

Any good name suggestions?


Thanks I still have a lot of optimization to do before this is smooth across the board.

It’s definitely a chrome-first app at this point.


Yeah that is a good move. I’ll add this to the short list


Thanks for the note. I hear you on the zoom pain. What would be your preferred means of zooming?


Pinch zoom is the preferred method, it just needs to zoom at a usable (much faster) pace.

I have no idea what input events zooming generates. Perhaps an option in the URL could be used to turn on a log of input events that people can copy/paste and submit back to you, so you can get a sense of what events are coming from various devices and input methods without having to find devices to try them all yourself.

Plenty of map sites have spent years broken on Macs, not handling smooth pinch-zoom or Magic Mouse smooth scroll wheel events. A slight 3mm movement of a finger going from fully zoomed in street view to fully zoomed out planet view. I'm assuming every micro-movement event is treated as a Windows scroll wheel event where you expect to move a decent chunk on each event.

However you're treating zoom inputs, you've got the opposite effect. A full zoom motion barely does anything.


Just noticed you also support scroll to zoom, and it works at a decent speed.


I’m glad you noticed. I’ll still look into pinch zoom for ya regardless


Thanks for the note and follow!

I’ll have to experiment with a full 3-D globe. The only problem I foresee is the lag associated with rendering the thousands of global flights all at once.


No glitch. It’s purposefully limited upon initial load. Adjust the search radius to increase your view range


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