Earlier quoted context omitted.
A real time visualization using AIS instead of ADS-B feeds, presumably
as opposed to the dozens of other flight tracker sites?
This is ships not aircraft
Flightradar24 for Ships
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Re: Flightradar24 for Ships
#32Seems 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.
The way I understand marinetraffic works is by having AIS receivers near shores and sending any received contacts to an API. If this works the same way then there's probably a lot fewer receivers so far.
Re: Flightradar24 for Ships
#33Off topic, but I hope the UX improves. It's almost unusable.
Clicking on anything is an error-prone mess and then it hijacks the back button by changing the URL. That would be better off as a simple "share" link somewhere in the popup.
Re: Flightradar24 for Ships
#34I once worked on a problem: GPS tracking shipping containers, since one company had almost 1% lost/stolen each year. I had an idea of using AIS with Si4362 to get positioning data from the container ship itself, but it was nearly impossible to get access to reefer monitoring systems. We ended up just using 4G NB-IoT for coastal tracking and it did solve the problem
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#35This only covers container ships btw. For full coverage of all vessels, try the 'vessel presence' layer in Global Fishing Watch's interactive map, based on a feed from Spire: https://globalfishingwatch.org/map/
https://aisvesseltracker.com/ is a good one too. Shows a LOT more, including cruise ships and pleasure craft.
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#36Meta: 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...
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Re: Flightradar24 for Ships
#37Did anyone spot the USS Abraham Lincoln?
Military ships don't run their radio beacons in combat zones. (There was an incident last year where the USS Theodore Roosevelt collided with a civilian cargo ship at night at least partially because it tried to approach the Suez canal with it's beacon off.)
Re: Flightradar24 for Ships
#38Did anyone spot the USS Abraham Lincoln?
Military ships don't run their radio beacons in combat zones. (There was an incident last year where the USS Theodore Roosevelt collided with a civilian cargo ship at night at least partially because it tried to approach the Suez canal with it's beacon off.)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like Flightradar24
In case anyone isn't aware: https://globe.adsbexchange.com – is an alternative to FlightRadar24 with more data.
ADSBX used to be volunteer ran until JETNET paid the guy who controlled the domain name $20 million dollars to "sell" it to them and steal everyone else's source code and data. They now do selective filtering to appease their commercial clients.
Everyone has moved to https://globe.airplanes.live/ and https://app.airframes.io/flights now.
Here is the lawsuit from one former group of contributors: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23963235-golden-hamm...
Re: Flightradar24 for Ships
#40It almost seems like I could have lived life as a trader and traveled the seas. Don’t know the type of money involved, and I guess I wouldn’t even know where to begin doing that in real life. So much easier in video games.
I’d just be a simple TEMU hauler, no fuss, simple life. Travel the world, catch some fish.