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Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by anonfunction »

elSidCampeador wrote: post #57

I believe NASA / EU provide daily satellite imagery for free (which is of relatively high quality too). I wonder if there's a way to take that data, and training some kind of image recognition model that figures out "movement" or something to the same end? Would be cool to see

Funnily enough, I did find a few satellite sources at the beginning for the map background and noticed that all the ships seemed to be scrubbed from the image. It's an interesting idea, thanks for the comment!

The sources I used were:

- ESRI World Imagery[1] — free satellite tiles, high-res, but ships are stripped out from the imagery

- NASA GIBS - VIIRS[2] — near real-time daily satellite imagery from NASA, but resolution is ~375m so ships aren't visible anyway

- Mapbox Satellite[3] — high-res and looks great, but same deal — ships are scrubbed from the composited imagery

1. https://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_I... 2. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/engage/open-data-services-softwar... 3. https://www.mapbox.com

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by xdennis »

spaghetdefects wrote: post #47

It was mentioned in this thread and quickly flagged, but Israel broke the ceasefire today by attacking civilians in Lebanon so Iran closed the straight. It was open prior to the ceasefire violation. France's Macron actually just commented on this: https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/2041990505760772551

> Israel broke the ceasefire

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Israel didn't sign any ceasefire. The ceasefire was between Iran and US. Israel separately announced (not part of any deal) that it would stop attacking Iran. It honored that self-imposed limit. Israel attacked Lebanon (Iran's proxy).

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by YZF »

spaghetdefects wrote: post #47

It was mentioned in this thread and quickly flagged, but Israel broke the ceasefire today by attacking civilians in Lebanon so Iran closed the straight. It was open prior to the ceasefire violation. France's Macron actually just commented on this: https://x.com/EmmanuelMacron/status/2041990505760772551

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Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by anonfunction »

Jeremy1026 wrote: post #52

The data being ~4 days delayed does kind of make this less useful. It is a nice concept and cool to see the historical data though. Just think the domain and the large "NO" doesn't really fit with the lack of current data.

What do you think of adding prediction market data to the indication? So basically there's this:

https://polymarket.com/event/strait-of-hormuz-traffic-return...

My approach would be if that jumps up to 75%+ it would change to YES. And if we get into May they have one for then too:

https://polymarket.com/event/strait-of-hormuz-traffic-return...

You can actually see in the last 24 hours it jumped up with the ceasefire and Iran saying they would open it and fell back with reports it's been shut down again easlier today.

Edit: I added this, I can see a few downvotes, happy to discuss here or in the github repo if anyone has strong feelings on it!

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by xdennis »

ktallett wrote: post #27
cramsession wrote: post #20

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Not the first time they couldn't keep to a ceasefire for even a day, let alone 24 hours. Exactly the same as what happened with Palestine last year as well.

Please tell me what ceasefire Israel signed? Is it in the room with us?

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn »

pietervdvn wrote: post #54
anonfunction wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CartoDB and Leaflet. Source is available here btw: https://github.com/montanaflynn/ishormuzopenyet

As an OpenStreetMap-contributor: you have to add attribution as per our license agreement: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright CartoDB packages this data into tiles you can use, but that doesn't lift this requirement.

I was implementing OSM the other day (with attribution of course) and noticed Carto seemed to be one of the only players with good dark tiles.

Seems like we can't use them for free, even with attribution, unless I get a grant?

Re: Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?

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Post by Quothling »

stavros wrote: post #12

I'm not really very up to speed on this, can someone explain how the strait is actually closed? Are the Iranians threatening to sink any ships that pass by, or what? How come any ships don't turn their transponders off and try to make a run for it?

Kattegat where I live is probably double the width of Hormuz and if you're in a small ship you can probably sail most of those 140 km. Not without risk, but you'd be relatively safe for the most part. Big ships can't though, so even though there might be 50km on each side of them they could potentially have a shipping lane which is only a few hundred meters wide.

I can't say that I know anything about Iran, but if we were to close our straits off so you couldn't enter the north sea from the baltic sea then our navy would rapidly deploy various different mines that lay on the bottom on the shallower parts and control the shipping lanes with things like suicide drones. I imagine Iran would do something similar, only they've probably been preparing for it a lot more than we have.

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