How to bring your own data in the traffic library?

[laynr]

I have the most basic generated time-series trajectory flight data in CSV files with icao24, datetime, lat, lon, and alt. What is the best way to bring it into the traffic library?

Looked for help at this page: https://traffic-viz.github.io/user_guide/own_data.html

[xoolive]

Hi @laynr
Indeed, I am well behind in terms of documentation.

About your issue:

• rename lat, lon and alt to latitude, longitude, altitude
• add a column timestamp with a dtype as timestamp (I recommend the timezone-aware version, but things should work in both cases)

Then create a Flight or Traffic (collection of Flight) object directly from the pandas Dataframe:

# for a single trajectory
Flight(df.rename(columns=dict(lat='latitude', etc.)))
# for many trajectories
for flight in Traffic(df.rename(columns=dict(lat='latitude', etc.))):
    print(flight)