I wanted a way to spot planes from my desk
Hey all! I've always loved planes and design equally and I've spent years looking for a decent way to watch aircraft from my desk. I've found that existing apps are cluttered, covered in ads, and never something I actually want to leave open.
I wanted something simple and beautiful that used Apple Maps. It's taken a while to work out how to render 3D objects onto Apple Maps, and I've hand-built a handful of aircraft models to fit the Apple Maps style.
It's still a work in progress, but in the spirit of getting things out into the world I figured I'd share it. It's built around airports rather than tracking everything in the air at once.
If you want to follow along I've put a waitlist up at terminal.flights. You can pick an airport, which helps me decide which ones to release first.
Cheers