traffic v2.6.5

Feature improvements:

• strict parameter to Flight clipping methods
• taxiway labelling for ground trajectories
• improvements on Impala query generation

Bug fixes:

• Fix for recent versions of pandas
• Flight are now GeoObjects
• Correct requests for airports footprints (cartes)
• Decoding speed and track for ground trajectories

Minor changes:

• Typing fixes
• Documentation fixes

Full Changelog: v2.6.4...v2.6.5

traffic v2.6.4

• New .final() operator, mirror of .next() d96fd9c
• Dependency issues for conda build deaed25

traffic v2.6.3

Dependency issue fix with pyOpenSSL

traffic v2.6.2

Minor release including:

• improvements in ground functions 05681c9
• improvements in startup time c83c825
• switch to poetry 3148a0f
• updates for pandas 1.3.0 430b321

traffic v2.6.1

Minor release including:

• caching lazy evaluations 4a49972
• missing lazy operators for .bearing() and .diff() 7579cdf
• serious improvements on Leaflet output (model for state vectors, airports, and more general highlighting capabilities) 45ffb03

traffic v2.6

Main changes since v2.5 include:

• Detection of events on ground (push back, parking positions, take off runway, etc.)
• Reconstruction of the most plausible flight plan (succession of waypoints)

Minor improvements:

• Support for CSV files downloaded from Flightradar24
• Download and parse METAR information
• Refactoring for altair visualisations
• Switch from cartotools to cartes package
• Many warning fixes
• Documentation improvements

traffic v2.5

Main changes since v2.4 include:

• Navigation events (runway alignment, runway changes, go-around, etc.)
• Support for flight phases from OpenAP
• Support for sliding windows
• Summary views for Traffic structures
• FlightIterator structures with proper representation and indexation
• Flight interaction with iterators through has()/next()/sum()/all()
• Flight support dynamic attributes, e.g. altitude_max
• Flight aggregation per window with agg_time()

Minor improvements:

• cartotools v.1.2.2 for better representations of airports
• More sample trajectories for documentation, gallery and testing
• Better API for leaflet on Flight and Traffic, popup windows
• Example gallery page
• Documentation improvements

traffic v2.4

Main changes since v2.3 include:

• New navigation related methods (e.g. alignment on ILS, navpoints, diversions, landing attempts, etc.)
• New method for custom heatmap (Flight.agg_latlon())
• Requests for custom queries from the OpenSky Impala shell
• Decoding uncertainty values in ADS-B messages
• Parsing Eurocontrol ALL_FT+ files

Minor improvements:

• Country registration flag on aircraft representation
• Update to latest versions of dependency libraries (pyproj, pyModeS)
• More scenarios, including the covid19 dataset presentation
• Documentation improvements

traffic v2.3

Main changes since v2.2 include:

• FlightPlan parsing
• Eurocontrol B2B API
• Parsing ADDS-FAA Open Data
• New sources of open data for airports
• Cascade filtering as default arguments
• Access to extra tables with raw data from OpenSky database, thanks @Wirden
• Cache expiration for better disk space management

Minor improvements:

• Empty Traffic and Flight are now treated as None
• Handling multiple sources of data for ATS routes, navaids
• Better handling of network proxies, thanks @espinielli
• Better handling of corrupted cache files
• Improved plotting for airports/runways
• Reverse argument to Flight.cumulative_distance, thanks @JarryGabriel
• Direct decoding from RTL-SDR and binary dumps thanks @junzis @espinielli

Bug fixes:

• Python 3.8, newer versions of numpy and pandas
• No more loop imports between core and data
• Memory leaks due to LRU cache

traffic v2.2

Main changes since v2.1 include:

• a more general Traffic indexation (slices, integers, etc.);
• facilities for computing and plotting wind fields;
• Flight.agg_time() to compute indicators on sliding windows, Flight.distance() now accepts airspaces and polygons;
• trajectory representations in notebooks are now simplified (resulting in lighter notebooks);
• access to more tables in OpenSky Impala; more general requests using airports for ADS-B and EHS, and using bounds for EHS messages (with associated documentation);
• decoding raw messages with pymodes now pass bytes, preparing for an optimised/compiled version of pymodes;
• a new plugin for Kepler.gl;
• sources of data ordered by provider (faa, eurocontrol), with more parsing facilities

and various bugfixes