Velocity
A self-hosted flight and ship tracker you can rewind
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Velocity tracks live aircraft (ADS-B) and ships (AIS) from public feeds with no API keys, records every position it sees to your own disk, and lets you drag a scrubber to rewind the map. Aircraft also replay from public archives back to 2024. Area alerts go to Discord, a webhook or ntfy. Every contact shows which feed reported it and how old the fix is. It also runs as an MCP server, so an agent can ask what is flying somewhere right now. docker compose up, AGPL-3.0.
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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Logistics
- Analytics & BI
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Travel
- GitHub
- Maps
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Yes Ingesting public ADS-B and AIS feeds, storing positions, and building a scrubber map with alerts is a well-trodden stack of existing open-source decoders, a time-series store, and a mapping UI.
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Launched 233 days after the earliest competitor.
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