Build Your Own Map Flight Tracking Application With Python

Introduction

Visualize flight tracks on a map with Python framework (geo/moving/pandas, contextually…)

Flight data are stored as pandas / GeoPandas data frames

The trajectory is built with movingpandas and interpolation and projection are realized with movingpandas functions

The map background is built contextually

The final animated gif is built with PIL and matplotlib

Example: one flight from Marrakesh to Rome

Run the demo-flight-tracking notebook to see how to build the Marrakesh-Rome example

pandas – Python Data Analysis Library
GeoPandas – GeoPandas is an open-source project which extends the datatypes used by pandas to allow spatial operations on geometric types.
movingpandas – Implementation of Trajectory classes and functions built on top of GeoPandas
contextually– Context geo-tiles in Python

This project is licensed under the MIT License – see the LICENSE.md file for details

Thanks to Anita Graser for her tutorials and videos on movingpandas