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Flightradar24 for Ships
- sgt 7mo agoSeems to only have a tiny amount of ships compared to marinetraffic.com ?
- jameshart 7mo agoSeems 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.
- moffkalast 7mo agoThe 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.
- victorbjorklund 7mo agoWhat is different from marinetraffic?
- wodenokoto 7mo agoAnd what’s the similarity to flight radar?
- notahacker 7mo agoA real time visualization using AIS instead of ADS-B feeds, presumably
- wodenokoto 7mo agoas opposed to the dozens of other flight tracker sites?
- esseph 7mo agoThis is ships not aircraft
- n2j3 7mo agoMarinetraffic is a good example of enshittification. Started well, now it's heavy and ad-laden, practically useless without a paid account.
- dry_soup 7mo agoSounds like Flightradar24
- rustyhancock 7mo agoAt least for FR24 you get a "Gold" account (no longer business) simply for running a feed.
- tappaseater 7mo agoNitpick: 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.
- amatecha 7mo agoYup, nothing changes now, but I'd pretty confidently place bets that the tier will have reduced features compared to the "Business" tier (or whatever it's called now)
- jen729w 7mo agoIn case anyone isn't aware: https://globe.adsbexchange.com https://globe.adsbexchange.com – is an alternative to FlightRadar24 with more data.
- oncallthrow 7mo agoUnfortunately adsbexchange does not allow you to see the source/destination of flights
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- aaron695 7mo ago[dead]
- vldszn 7mo agoLooking good! Thanks for sharing
- vldszn 7mo agoAfter reading the comments I must say that https://aisvesseltracker.com/ https://aisvesseltracker.com/ is much, much better =)
- Levitating 7mo agoSeems like it's just cargo ships? And presumably not even all of them. I'll prefer vesselfinder for marinetraffic.
- throw0101c 7mo agoMeta: I like the use of an actual globe when zoomed out. Wish more things would do this. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical_equal-area_projection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical_equal-area_project...
- twocommits 7mo ago[dead]
- latexr 7mo agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMfXVWFBrVo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMfXVWFBrVo I bet many of you can guess what scene from what show that points to.
- dmarinus 7mo agoI tried posting ais-catcher.org but it got ignored
- gerry_shaw 7mo agoDoman needs to be www.ais-catcher.org
- gehsty 7mo agoInteresting, 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.
- newzino 7mo ago[flagged]
- ltrg 7mo agoThis 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/ https://globalfishingwatch.org/map/
- cess11 7mo agoThanks for the recommendation, looks interesting. I've used Vessel Finder due to something being a nuisance with Marine Traffic. https://www.vesselfinder.com/ https://www.vesselfinder.com/
- joezydeco 7mo agohttps://aisvesseltracker.com/ https://aisvesseltracker.com/ is a good one too. Shows a LOT more, including cruise ships and pleasure craft.
- landl0rd 7mo agoIt's also a bit limited. The gold standard is still kpler.
- nehal3m 7mo agohttps://www.marinetraffic.com https://www.marinetraffic.com has most AIS transponders, I use it to track friends on commercial and private vessels.
- wolvoleo 7mo agohttps://aprs.fi https://aprs.fi also shows AIS (as well as ham radio operators which is its primary function)
- villson 7mo agoDoesn't track all container ships. I'm looking out my office window at Eliot Bay (Seattle), I see two container ships not on the map.
- nodesocket 7mo agoThis 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.
- amelius 7mo agoDid anyone spot the USS Abraham Lincoln?
- appointment 7mo agoMilitary ships don't run their radio beacons in combat zones. (There was an incident last year where the USS Theodore Roosevelt collided with a civilian cargo ship at night at least partially because it tried to approach the Suez canal with it's beacon off.)
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- dwedge 7mo agoYears 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
- ConanRus 7mo ago[dead]
- sublinear 7mo agoOff 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.
- urba_ 7mo agoI 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
- general_reveal 7mo agoIt almost seems like I could have lived life as a trader and traveled the seas. Don’t know the type of money involved, and I guess I wouldn’t even know where to begin doing that in real life. So much easier in video games. I’d just be a simple TEMU hauler, no fuss, simple life. Travel the world, catch some fish.
- 0dayman 7mo agoI don't see any of the American destroyers in Hormoz
- enraged_camel 7mo agoThis is only for container ships.
- 0dayman 7mo agoexactly, and that's where they'll stay, 1000KM away, so you cannot control it, so no oil
- cckolon 7mo agoHow does this differ from something like MarineTraffic?
- TrackerFF 7mo agoOne massive problem with AIS is that it is open. This opens it up for spoofing, intentional or not. The global map is littered with garbage AIS positions, but mostly in areas that do not have strong AIS coverage to begin. To combat this, some countries have started to enforce their countries to use VMS (vessel monitoring system). I say some, but mostly the more resource rich countries - Norway being one of them. VMS also comes with the benefit of much more data capabilities, like fishing vessels sending catch data. Sensor fusion to detect dark vessels is also a big growing thing. We use around 5 different sensors outside the usual AIS, VMS, LRIT to build vessel tracks. Some are experimental sensors, while others are seeing more mainstream use - like navigation radar sensing. Maybe a challenge for private entities that want to create these sorts of apps, is data - buying even just AIS data can be expensive at scale. Countries that deal with this often engage in data exchange...some data provider receives data from you, you get some in return for them.
- ffsickempire 7mo ago[dead]
- kaliszad 7mo agoI hope they expand it in such a way that anybody could uncover the ships of the Russian "shadow fleet" and put more pressure on politicians and officials. Suspicious draught or erratic position changes or incorrect data upon leaving/ entering a port would be key to detecting possible circumvention of sanctions.