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The vast majority of navigational incidents are caused by human error, but better systems would give the crew a chance to realise their mistakes At the moment lots of maritime crew…

So one of the fundamental design elements of a electronic chart display information system(Ecdis) or warfare Ecdis is the use of the safety depth contour. Anything inside the blue …

I wonder if it's just a random manager who approved the donation. For those who don't have experience of big orgs 5k is often in the region where you don't need to go higher for ap…

From my experience business travel is as much about sharing an experience as it is the discussion or dissemination of information. That's a hard thing to replicate

This just feels like the latest in a long line of industries trying to build a recurring revenue model fueled by greed. Looking at the uproar from moves by Circut[1] and others mak…

What3words is a clever bit of research that should never have been spun into a company. It's just an implementation of a discrete global grid. I don't think it is live anymore but …

In a typical example isn't this what route 53 solves?

You can already host vector tiles within S3 that work with Mapbox and other libraries. Not really sure what problem this is trying to solve.

One interesting thing is the toll often fluctuates due to the oil price. If the toll is deemed to be too high a vessel always has the option of going around the Cape. Realistically…

Most vessels will have some form of connectivity on board right now. It depends on their vicinity to coast. Right now data sizes of an email are industry standard. As you go into 1…

Starlink has the potential to completely revolutionise the shipping sector. Digitisation in the maritime space has been slow and adoption/innovation has been hampered by poor conne…

The OS are making a lot more data freely available as part of the Geospatial commission push to make geospatial data more widely available to drive innovation. I wouldn't be surpri…

Interestingly the same techniques are applied to the fishing industry to monitor for illegal fishing in protected areas.

I think the concept of a persona has morphed and been abused over time. With my team we use them as a tool to organise a set of assumption's or hypotheses that we want to test. The…

My best guess would be that most commercial provider like MarineTraffic wouldn't show those vessels because they would be running duplicate MMSI numbers to hide their identity to m…

The problem of finding the Centreline of the banana is similar to an issue you get in the GIS domain when rivers are captured as polygons. Although it's not a straightforward proce…