A Minimal Flight Tracking Map
Minimal London Day 11 of the #30DayMapChalenge is to create a Minimal Map . For this task my Minimal London flight-tracking map strips away everything but the essentials - a bold black canvas, a clean blue river, crisp white bridges, and the silent drift of planes crossing the city in real-time. 🗺 What the Map Shows At its heart, the map visualizes: The River Thames, rendered as a smooth, blue line cutting through the dark void of London. London’s iconic bridges, appearing as thin white strokes - each connecting the banks of the Thames with quiet precision. Real-time aircraft, shown as small white dots that glide across the map’s surface, constantly updated from live air traffic data. No labels, no basemap, no noise. Just London reduced to geometry, motion, and rhythm. ✈️ Live Plane Data from the OpenSky Network The tiny white dots aren’t random - they represent real planes currently flying over and around London. The data is sourced from the OpenSky Network API , a public ADS-B da...
