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#2I see a lot of these points going over land, even where there aren't any big rivers. Maybe this is a plot of the containers rather than the ships?
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#3I see a lot of these points going over land, even where there aren't any big rivers. Maybe this is a plot of the containers rather than the ships?
Canals. Figure they have probably fixed any wobbly data.
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#4Does anyone know where they get the data for these shipping map sites?
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#5Does anyone know where they get the data for these shipping map sites?
In this case, the underlying data is from exactEarth. It’s not free data. I believe exactEarth obtains the data by reading the pings from the ship’s transponders.
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#6There are pirates (thieves, but I like Pirate better?) whom were renting luxury boats in the Mediterranean, and stealing them.
They would fly to Europe, and dress like rich fancy boys.
They would then rent the ships for vacation.
They would take the transponder off the luxury vessel, and put it on a toy boat. The owner would check on his vessel, and it all looked fine.
Meanwhile, the thieves would have the boat in Russia in a few days.
(I believe they got 100 boats. This article reminded me of the caper.)
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#7Does anyone know where they get the data for these shipping map sites?
Modern vessels are required to have a AIS transponder. This is a radio that sends the ships speed, position, angle and optionally their destination around by marine (VHF) radio. These maps are probably made by having thousands of receivers recording the AIS data.
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#8I see a lot of these points going over land, even where there aren't any big rivers. Maybe this is a plot of the containers rather than the ships?
Canals. Figure they have probably fixed any wobbly data.
Some of the (likely) fixes look pretty weird, moving at a ridiculous speed, through land and sea in a straight line, only to reach a certain point and continue as if nothing had happened.
e.g. 8 June 2012 05:00 from western Sahara to English Channel, through Sahara, right the middle of Spain, parts of France.
Another on 9 May 2012 from Southeast Asia, straight through the south of India and right through the middle of Africa to somewhere on the Guinean Gulf in about half a day.
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#9It would be interesting to see this with more recent data.
Ships taking the Northern Arctic route etc.
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#10If you click to about the middle of May and wait a few seconds, you get a ship flying across the middle of Africa. I wonder what happened there :)