Used this when I moved internationally. Cool to watch your stuff moving around the world!
It seems like this only covers data from 2012, so probably one of the other live websites like marinetraffic?
Shipmap.org
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#32This is beautiful and well done. For realtime shipping information, may I suggest this:
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#33This is weirdly beautiful, like the maps of undersea internet cables that frequently come up here as well. You can clearly see: 1) oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf from the Middle East to China 2) ships waiting to get through the Panama and Suez Canals 3) why people talk about “shipping lanes”. There are some obvious tracks everyone follows, because it’s the cheapest way from A to B (e.g. cape of good hope to stra…
I posted this as a top-level comment, but for up to date info you might try this:
I have no affiliation with that site, I just enjoy it.
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#34A lot of people have called out some interesting things - one thing that I notice is how the cold water ports shut down in the winter (in the northern hemisphere). It's one of those things I've always heard and known about, but to see it visually conceptualized (and the implications on economy and national interests) is very cool
Something that will change in the next century. I'm curious how that will affect shipping. I'm imagining it won't have much impact on container shipping but natural resources probably?
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#35This is beautiful. I would love there to be a way to show this on a sphere instead of a flat map so I can find out how things might change in the next century with climate change. I haven't quite understood yet what the new shipping routes will enable us to do. I'm assuming this is partly what the whole Greenland thing is about?
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#36I see ships crossing land. Does that mean that they turned off their transponder or whatever after leaving port and turned it on upon arriving at the destination port? I suppose the software just shows the straight line path at the calculated average speed.
Look at the Eastern US for May 3-4.
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#37This is beautiful but I really wish the land was green or some more obvious color. Zoomed out it is easier to tell but when it zooms in tightly I'm completely lost (maybe I'm just an idiot?).
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#38I see ships crossing land. Does that mean that they turned off their transponder or whatever after leaving port and turned it on upon arriving at the destination port? I suppose the software just shows the straight line path at the calculated average speed. Look at the Eastern US for May 3-4.
There needs to be an AIS receiver to pick up the ship's transponder, which is why most of the free ship tracking sites only work near the coast.
This seems unusual if you're used to ADSB tracking sites, since the line of sight goes much further due to elevation. There's also more receivers feeding them.
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#39This is pretty amazing to watch! I did just watch a dot go through the Great Lakes, to Chicago, then take to the air and make a bee line straight to the Gulf of Mexico. Probably some weird artifact but made me chuckle.
That could be malfunctioning hardware, turned off AIS, or a gap in recording. Smaller deviations from a line are most likely GPS jitter. AIS is transmitted over VHF. Terrestrial stations listen for the transmitted AIS messages to record them for public consumption.
Source: I collect AIS data over TCP/IP directly from my orgs ships.
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#40This is weirdly beautiful, like the maps of undersea internet cables that frequently come up here as well. You can clearly see: 1) oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf from the Middle East to China 2) ships waiting to get through the Panama and Suez Canals 3) why people talk about “shipping lanes”. There are some obvious tracks everyone follows, because it’s the cheapest way from A to B (e.g. cape of good hope to stra…
> 6) nobody goes in the southern ocean! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties “Below 40 degrees south, there is no law; below 50 degrees, there is no God.”
Although interestingly, as that wikipedia article also points out, people did go down into the 40s quite a bit during the Age of Sail (the famous clipper route), because the strong prevailing winds meant it was the fastest way to get around the world. This comes up quite often in the Aubrey-Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian.
If you're not a sailing ship, you don't benefit from the winds, so those latitudes are pretty empty nowadays.