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What is different from marinetraffic?

• wodenokoto 8mo ago
  And what’s the similarity to flight radar?
  • notahacker 8mo ago
    A real time visualization using AIS instead of ADS-B feeds, presumably
    • wodenokoto 8mo ago
      as opposed to the dozens of other flight tracker sites?
      • esseph 8mo ago
        This is ships not aircraft
• n2j3 8mo ago
  Marinetraffic is a good example of enshittification. Started well, now it's heavy and ad-laden, practically useless without a paid account.
  • dry_soup 8mo ago
    Sounds like Flightradar24
    • rustyhancock 8mo ago
      At least for FR24 you get a "Gold" account (no longer business) simply for running a feed.
      • tappaseater 8mo 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.
        • amatecha 8mo ago
          Yup, 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 8mo ago
      In case anyone isn't aware: https://globe.adsbexchange.com https://globe.adsbexchange.com – is an alternative to FlightRadar24 with more data.
      • oncallthrow 8mo ago
        Unfortunately adsbexchange does not allow you to see the source/destination of flights
        • esseph 8mo ago
          Untrue Click on the aircraft, then click on Flight Activity.
          • kortilla 8mo ago
            The inscrutable buttons in their UI are terrible for mobile/tablet access. I wish the discoverability was better
      • mike_d 8mo ago
        ADSBX used to be volunteer ran until JETNET paid the guy who controlled the domain name $20 million dollars to "sell" it to them and steal everyone else's source code and data. They now do selective filtering to appease their commercial clients. Everyone has moved to https://globe.airplanes.live/ https://globe.airplanes.live/ and https://app.airframes.io/flights https://app.airframes.io/flights now. Here is the lawsuit from one former group of contributors: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23963235-golden-hammer-v-jetnet-et-al/ https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23963235-golden-hamm...
        • wolvoleo 8mo ago
          Yeah that really sucked. It was a great volunteer platform and I was sad the guy sold out. It didn't filter anything. Not rich guys' jets, not military etc. The community never really recovered. The airplanes.live one doesn't have as many feeders and the airframes.io is hidden behind a login. I was hoping the community would simply move in unison to a new platform just like what happened when freenode got ruined. But it seems to have kinda fallen apart. Especially the MLAT abilities (receiving traditional transponders pre-ADS-B) was really cool but it really needs a lot of feeders to be able to pinpoint them.
  • Noaidi 8mo ago
    I find Marinetraffic is fine without an account. Here is a link to oil tankers anchored around the Strait of Hormuz. It has much better filters: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:56.8/centery:25.8/zoom:8 https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:56.8/cente...
    • dzhiurgis 8mo ago
      Any of these provide satellite data without charge? Also - is there any sites that publish parsed data from SAR sats?
  • joewhale 8mo ago
    Kpler acquired them and it's not consumer friendly anymore. They are focused on enterprise accounts only now.
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