FLflightaware
history

Get an image of a historical flight's track on a map

Returns a historical flight's track as a base64-encoded image. Image can contain a variety of additional data layers beyond just the track. Data is available from now back to 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.

get/history/flights/{id}/map

Request

Path parameters

idstring required

The fa_flight_id to fetch

Query parameters

heightinteger

Height of requested image (pixels)

widthinteger

Width of requested image (pixels)

layer_onstring[]

List of map layers to enable

layer_offstring[]

List of map layers to disable

show_data_blockboolean

Whether a textual caption containing the ident, type, heading, altitude, origin, and destination should be displayed by the flight's position.

airports_expand_viewboolean

Whether to force zoom area to ensure origin/destination airports are visible. Enabling this flag forcefully enables the show_airports flag as well.

show_airportsboolean

Whether to show the origin/destination airports for the flight as labeled points on the map.

bounding_boxnumber[]

Manually specify the zoom area of the map using custom bounds. Should be a list of 4 coordinates representing the top, right, bottom, and left sides of the area (in that order).

Response

OK

mapstring byte required

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.