data & credits
BlackRhino stands on the work of volunteers who run radio receivers and open-data projects. Thank you.
live aircraft
| Source | What | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| adsb.fi | Live ADS-B positions from community feeders | Personal, non-commercial use, with attribution (terms) |
| adsb.lol | Live positions, and the open history archive used to train landing estimates | ODbL 1.0. The landing-estimate model (eta-model.json) is derived from this archive and is shared under ODbL too. |
| The OpenSky Network | Additional live positions | Matthias Schäfer, Martin Strohmeier, Vincent Lenders, Ivan Martinovic and Matthias Wilhelm. "Bringing Up OpenSky: A Large-scale ADS-B Sensor Network for Research". IPSN 2014. |
| adsbdb | Routes, airframes, operators | Free public API by adsbdb.com, credited here as requested |
maps, terrain and weather
| Source | What | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| OpenFreeMap | 2D map tiles | © OpenMapTiles · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) |
| Esri World Imagery | Satellite imagery (3D, globe, live view) | Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics and the GIS user community |
| Esri World Dark Gray Canvas | 2D reference basemap | Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors and the GIS user community |
| Esri World Boundaries and Places | Labels on the live view | Esri, HERE, Garmin and the GIS user community |
| Esri World Elevation 3D | Terrain on the globe | Esri, Airbus, USGS, NGA, NASA, CGIAR, NLS, OS, NMA, Geodatastyrelsen, GSA, GSI and the GIS user community. Esri services are used under Esri terms; self-hosters need their own agreement for production use. |
| AWS Terrain Tiles | Elevation in 3D | Mapzen Terrain Tiles: 3DEP and SRTM (USGS, NASA), GMTED2010, ETOPO1 (NOAA), EU-DEM, ArcticDEM and others, full attribution |
| EUMETSAT | Live Meteosat infrared clouds | Contains modified EUMETSAT data |
| NOAA Aviation Weather Center | Live METAR weather for runway estimates | US Government public data |
| Iowa Environmental Mesonet | Historical METARs used in model training | Iowa State University |
| OurAirports | Airports and runways | Public domain |
| OpenStreetMap | 3D airport layouts: runways, taxiways, aprons, terminals (141 airports) | © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. Our derived files in apt3d/ are shared under ODbL too. |
| VATSIM vatspy-data-project | Approximate FIR boundaries | CC BY-SA 4.0. Our derived fir.json is shared under the same licence. |
trademarks
BlackRhino is not affiliated with any airline, airport or data provider. Airline names and colours are trademarks of their owners, used only to identify aircraft.
open source
BlackRhino's code is open source under the MIT licence: github.com/themonkkey/blackrhino. Data and third-party assets keep their own licences, listed above and in the repository's NOTICE file.
software
Leaflet (BSD-2), MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3), three.js (MIT), CesiumJS (Apache 2.0), fonts Montserrat, Montserrat Alternates and JetBrains Mono (SIL Open Font License).
Want to help coverage in India? Feeding a receiver to adsb.fi or adsb.lol costs a few thousand rupees and fills the low-altitude gaps near airports.