▲This only covers container ships btw. For full coverage of all vessels, try the 'vessel presence' layer in Global Fishing Watch's interactive map, based on a feed from Spire:
https://globalfishingwatch.org/map/I once worked on a problem: GPS tracking shipping containers, since one company had almost 1% lost/stolen each year. I had an idea of using AIS with Si4362 to get positioning data from the container ship itself, but it was nearly impossible to get access to reefer monitoring systems. We ended up just using 4G NB-IoT for coastal tracking and it did solve the problem
reply▲Years ago I used to subscribe to a service that did this for oil tankers and tried to estimate oil to each route, they wrote a weekly summary. Eventually they decided they only wanted enterprise clients and not people like me who, working in devops, had no need for this service at all and only paid the $20 a month out of some weird fascination
reply▲What is different from marinetraffic?
reply▲Marinetraffic is a good example of enshittification. Started well, now it's heavy and ad-laden, practically useless without a paid account.
reply▲Sounds like Flightradar24
reply▲reply▲oncallthrow3 hours ago
[-] Unfortunately adsbexchange does not allow you to see the source/destination of flights
reply▲Untrue
Click on the aircraft, then click on Flight Activity.
rustyhancock5 hours ago
[-] At least for FR24 you get a "Gold" account (no longer business) simply for running a feed.
reply▲tappaseater5 hours ago
[-] Nitpick: It's called Contributor and supposedly has the same features of the previous subscription. It still feels like a setup for future degradation by some marketing genius.
reply▲And what’s the similarity to flight radar?
reply▲A real time visualization using AIS instead of ADS-B feeds, presumably
reply▲as opposed to the dozens of other flight tracker sites?
reply▲This is ships not aircraft
reply▲Seems to only have a tiny amount of ships compared to marinetraffic.com ?
reply▲Seems regionally biased. This map makes it look like the Americas barely see any ship traffic, while the South China Sea is paved with ships from shore to shore.
reply▲moffkalast37 minutes ago
[-] The way I understand marinetraffic works is by having AIS receivers near shores and sending any received contacts to an API. If this works the same way then there's probably a lot fewer receivers so far.
reply▲Seems like it's just cargo ships? And presumably not even all of them.
I'll prefer vesselfinder for marinetraffic.
sublinear22 minutes ago
[-] Off topic, but I hope the UX improves. It's almost unusable.
Clicking on anything is an error-prone mess and then it hijacks the back button by changing the URL. That would be better off as a simple "share" link somewhere in the popup.
Interesting, a cool resource for an API endpoint for AIS data so aisstream.io. Seems quite solid. Any one any idea of a good resource for satellite AIS data - I feel like the EU probably funded it and I can’t find anything on capricious etc.
reply▲I tried posting ais-catcher.org but it got ignored
reply▲Doman needs to be www.ais-catcher.org
reply▲Did anyone spot the USS Abraham Lincoln?
reply▲This seems useful speculating on short term oil prices. I believe the straight of hormuz may be closed or rumor of closing. Every expert seems to think that will spike oil prices.
reply▲These tools went mainstream when the Houthis started hitting container ships. Watching AIS transponders go dark or vessels suddenly diverting around the Cape was something you just couldn't get from news coverage. And with Hormuz tensions right now, the real-time value is even higher.
reply▲Looking good! Thanks for sharing
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