They also have a great iPhone app.
Live ships map
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#22This is very cool. Great tool for Somalian pirates too? edit. Ahh never mind they don't seem to have any data on the east coast of Africa
Maybe everyone's too scared to take a boat of the coast of Somalia? Also notice the ridiculous amount of ships of of Iran's coast!
Those are mostly oil tankers. Since 20% of the world's oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz [1], the Iranians threat of closing that passage has petroleum prices recently. More analysis at The Oil Drum [2].
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#23I'm actually serving data to marinetraffic.com from a receiver near Point Conception, California. The AIS broadcasts in the VHF band so it's basically line of site, plus a bit more because of various scattering effects. We have a receiver on Santa Cruz Island at about 750 ft elevation that gets AIS signals from ships off Mexico (when the conditions are right) - way beyond the quoted range. The amount of shipping alon…
This makes me want to buy a bunch of AIS receivers and take a week or two off to travel to far flung locations to setup remote receiving locations.
Nerd level: Extreme
Bonus points that you cite Calculated Risk blog.
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#24Am I the only one who searched for the Steve Irwin?
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#25I built an app that combines freely available AIS data with other relevant inventory data and sell subscriptions to some local oil-spill recovery companies: http://demo.dedicatedmaps.com/
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#26Wow, really cool. My apartment overlooks Vancouver harbour and I can see every ship thats on the map.
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#27I have some friends who do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTE9Gr0ZmOc
I bet they would love this app.
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#28I'm actually serving data to marinetraffic.com from a receiver near Point Conception, California. The AIS broadcasts in the VHF band so it's basically line of site, plus a bit more because of various scattering effects. We have a receiver on Santa Cruz Island at about 750 ft elevation that gets AIS signals from ships off Mexico (when the conditions are right) - way beyond the quoted range. The amount of shipping alon…
This makes me want to buy a bunch of AIS receivers and take a week or two off to travel to far flung locations to setup remote receiving locations. Nerd level: Extreme Bonus points that you cite Calculated Risk blog.
This makes me want to buy a bunch of AIS receivers and take a week or two off to travel to far flung locations to setup remote receiving locations.
We've been putting them at our HF radar sites to log ship data, so that we can use the ship data in a hack to get the radars to self calibrate. The radars measure ocean currents and are in some pretty 'far flung locations'. Yes it's fun!
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#29There are a lot of tankers sitting off the coasts. I wonder if they are holding oil that was delivered to speculators, awaiting sale?
Often tankers sit out and wait for the oil price to change marginally (yes, really - its that silly). Other than that, could be many reasons including bunkering (via smaller ships), full port, repairs/servicing, etc.
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#30Wow. Notice the complete lack of anything around North Korea.
Lack of data, due to lack of AIS receivers, not lack of shipping activity.