Aviation Data

Makefile

• make or make help to list all commands
• make docker-up to start all containers
• make docker-clean to stop and delete all containers, volumes, and networks related to the application

Setup

1. Override any environment variables in .env.local
2. Build the required images. Running just make build will build the nginx image
   • make build f=nginx
   • make build f=api
   • make build f=ui
3. Generate the SSL certificates with make cert d=<DOMAIN>
   • Running just make cert will generate localhost certificates
4. Run the application with make up

Production Environment

The most likely to change environment variables are the following:

• UI_PORT
• API_PORT
• POSTGRES_PORT
• POSTGRES_PASSWORD - Please change in production environments
• MINIO_HOST - Match to the NGINX_HOST value (see below)
• MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD - Please change in production environments
• NGINX_HOST - The IP address of the system
• NGINX_INTERNAL_HOST - Typically host.docker.internal or 172.17.0.1 to allow communication within the docker network
• ENVIRONMENT - Change to production
• ADMIN_EMAIL - Please change in production environments
• ADMIN_PASSWORD - Please change in production environments
• VITE_API_URL - Change to the FQDN of the URL that is reachable through the internet. For example: https://aviation.bensherriff.com
• __VITE_ADDITIONAL_SERVER_ALLOWED_HOSTS - Change to the domain of the VITE_API_URL. For example: aviation.bensherriff.com

If the App is not directly exposed to the internet (i.e., behind another reverse proxy or similar), then NGINX_SSL_ENABLED most likely should be false. The NGINX_SSL_ENABLED should only be enabled when you need to set up SSL directly. However, the SSL configuration is incomplete, and may require additional configuration that is not included in this README.

• Additionally, run make cert to generate certificates.

Data Sources

Airport Data

Potential Data sources

• https://adip.faa.gov/agis/public/#/airportSearch/advanced
• https://www.icao.int/Aviation-API-Data-Service/Pages/default.aspx
• https://ourairports.com/data/
• mborsetti/airportsdata
• https://www.iata.org/en/publications/directories/code-search/
• openstreet

Metar Data

Metar data is collected from aviationweather.gov.

Decoding METARS

The following resources were used to help decode METARS.

• Metar Decode Key PDF
• Metar Decode (NPS EDU)
• moratech.com

OpenMapTiles

Generate Vector Tiles

Other data

• https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/weather/asos