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Commercial use

The FlyItalyADSB API in apps and devices you sell: one key per product, caching on your server, the right plan, CC BY-SA 4.0 attribution, when to get in touch.

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Commercial use is allowed on every plan, Free included, within the plan’s limits. That covers apps and devices you sell too, with no separate agreement: the terms apply.

Patterns, usage and ready-to-run code for displays, apps and drones: For product builders.

Apps and devices

  • One key per product, not one per device or per customer. Requests from all devices count together on that key, from any IP.
  • A server of your own with a cache that serves only your devices is fine: it isn’t redistribution, and it lowers your request count.
  • A key inside an app or firmware can be extracted. If that worries you, use it only from your server.

Sizing the plan

Multiply one device’s requests by the number of devices. For example, 10 devices asking 12 times a minute, day and night, make 120 requests a minute and over 5 million a month: the Pro plan. A single device asking 12 times a minute already goes past the Free plan’s 300,000 a month.

  • Asking every 15 seconds instead of every 5 cuts usage by three.
  • With a cache on your server, many devices in the same area cost as much as one.

The plans are on REST API. The key you already have moves to the new plan without changing.

Attribution and licence

The data is CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit FlyItalyADSB with a link to flyitalyadsb.com where users see it: in the app, on the device or in the manual, on the product page. For example:

Flight data: FlyItalyADSB (flyitalyadsb.com), CC BY-SA 4.0

Share-alike covers the data and adapted versions of it, for example a dataset, a feed or an API built from ours: those go under the same licence. It doesn’t cover your product: artwork, code and design stay yours and you don’t have to publish them.

If you need more

Get in touch and we’ll agree something tailored if you need:

  • to resell the data as an API or feed for other people’s products;
  • an SLA;
  • more than 25 watched aircraft, or more volume than the Fleet plan.

Write to [email protected].

The feeder perk

If you feed the network with a receiver, your Free keys get the Pro plan’s limits and features for free, but for non-commercial use only: it doesn’t cover products you sell. See Become a feeder.