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Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by rustyhancock » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:34 PM UTC

dry_soup wrote: post #10

n2j3 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Marinetraffic is a good example of enshittification. Started well, now it's heavy and ad-laden, practically useless without a paid account.

Sounds like Flightradar24

At least for FR24 you get a "Gold" account (no longer business) simply for running a feed.

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by Noaidi » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

n2j3 wrote: post #7

victorbjorklund wrote: post #3

What is different from marinetraffic?

Marinetraffic is a good example of enshittification. Started well, now it's heavy and ad-laden, practically useless without a paid account.

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/cente...

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by wodenokoto » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:39 PM UTC

notahacker wrote: post #6

wodenokoto wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what’s the similarity to flight radar?

A real time visualization using AIS instead of ADS-B feeds, presumably

as opposed to the dozens of other flight tracker sites?

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by jen729w » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

dry_soup wrote: post #10

n2j3 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Marinetraffic is a good example of enshittification. Started well, now it's heavy and ad-laden, practically useless without a paid account.

Sounds like Flightradar24

In case anyone isn't aware:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com

– is an alternative to FlightRadar24 with more data.

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by jameshart » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:40 PM UTC

sgt wrote: post #2

Seems to only have a tiny amount of ships compared to marinetraffic.com ?

Seems regionally biased. This map makes it look like the Americas barely see any ship traffic, while the South China Sea is paved with ships from shore to shore.

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by tappaseater » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:45 PM UTC

rustyhancock wrote: post #11

dry_soup wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like Flightradar24

At least for FR24 you get a "Gold" account (no longer business) simply for running a feed.

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.

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by Levitating » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

Seems like it's just cargo ships? And presumably not even all of them.

I'll prefer vesselfinder for marinetraffic.

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by throw0101c » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 3:15 PM UTC

Meta: I like the use of an actual globe when zoomed out. Wish more things would do this.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical_equal-area_project...

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by dmarinus » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 3:19 PM UTC

I tried posting ais-catcher.org but it got ignored

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by gehsty » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

Interesting, a cool resource for an API endpoint for AIS data so aisstream.io. Seems quite solid. Any one any idea of a good resource for satellite AIS data - I feel like the EU probably funded it and I can’t find anything on capricious etc.