International Space Station Current Location API
ngramste opened this issue · 7 comments
I copied this over from your coding topics issues as I had added this there by mistake.
This is a suggestion for your new Intro to Data APIs playlist. This could be a good first video because of how simple the API is. This API returns the GPS location of the ISS in real time. This is useful for tracking because the ISS's boosts itself into a higher orbit every few weeks to fight crashing back to earth. This causes the orbital period to change making future location predictions invalid.
I just modified a bit of "Coding Challenge #57: Mapping Earthquake Data".
https://editor.p5js.org/mikakruschel/sketches/ukqfz9bMh
@ngramste thank you for the suggestion! @mikakruschel I noticed you are using a different API https://wheretheiss.at/w/developer. I might like to use this b/c it is https (open notify is not). Do you know who maintains this / how reliable it is?
I chose the wheretheiss.at API because the p5 web editor doesn't seem to support fetch() with http.
According to the about site, the API was developed by Bill Shupp (@shupp), but I do not know how reliable it is.
The WTIA API is pretty reliable, been around for many years now.
Oh hi @shupp! Thanks for your wonderful work! How do you feel as me using your API as a demonstration example for a new playlist of tutorial videos I'm planning for https://www.youtube.com/thecodingtrain? Any advice or thoughts welcome!