I have been a dedicated flight tracker for 3 years now and must say I love what Flightaware brings to the table when it comes to offering the ability to setup your own feeder stations for ADS-B/UAT. I run multiple PiAware devices and love supporting the community. However, when it comes to customizing and tweaking. I feel there is room for growth.
The issue I am specifically facing presently is when viewing my SkyAnyWhere maps from a mobile device or even a desktop. No matter how much I zoom in to the map side of the interface. The plane and helicopter icons remain the same size. To me this defeats the purpose of zooming. I can see where everything is located but on a mobile device if I zoom down to street level and a Airbus A380 is the size of a motorcycle, that doesn’t help me. More specifically I am looking to make sparse groupings of aircraft larger so I can select individual ones.
But I have not been able to find the code to change any of the settings. I would like the icons to enlarge as I zoom in until at a certain point they stop getting larger and then level off. Instead of remaining the same all the time. And I am hoping the community can help me!
You can have a look at tar1090 an alternative map which runs beside Skyview on your device. There you can change the size of the icons
The developer is member here and might be able to answer questions.
But once you zoom in or out, the icon size remain the same. What you are looking for is maybe a solution to set a specifi icon size which doesn’t change on zoom. No idea if this can be implemented.
I do want the icon size to change up to a certain zoom level and then plateau. Making it easier to view on my mobile device. I don’t mind the icons being small when fully zoomed out or when resetting the map. However, I want the aircraft to be more selectable when zooming in rather than just easier to see exactly where they are located in reference to the map.
I will reach out to the dev and see if he has any solutions that may help! @wiedehopf
My apologies. My intention was to follow up with you and ask if that would be a possibility with the software you wrote. I didn’t mean for you to help with other software.
As far as “concrete questions”, I clearly laid out my request. Being, is it possible to set different icon sizes for aircraft to different zoom levels and have the icon size Plateau once it reaches a certain zoom level? Instead of the icons remaining the same as you zoom.
Which to me is concrete.
However, I am certainly confused why you felt it necessary to respond in that manner. As I was simply seeking guidance from the community.
