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Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by dzhiurgis »

Noaidi wrote: post #12
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.

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...

Any of these provide satellite data without charge?

Also - is there any sites that publish parsed data from SAR sats?

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by landl0rd »

ltrg wrote: post #23

This 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/

It's also a bit limited. The gold standard is still kpler.

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by nehal3m »

ltrg wrote: post #23

This 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://www.marinetraffic.com has most AIS transponders, I use it to track friends on commercial and private vessels.

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by latexr »

throw0101c wrote: post #18

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...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMfXVWFBrVo

I bet many of you can guess what scene from what show that points to.

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by wolvoleo »

mike_d wrote: post #39
jen729w wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.documentc…

Yeah that really sucked. It was a great volunteer platform and I was sad the guy sold out. It didn't filter anything. Not rich guys' jets, not military etc.

The community never really recovered. The airplanes.live one doesn't have as many feeders and the airframes.io is hidden behind a login.

I was hoping the community would simply move in unison to a new platform just like what happened when freenode got ruined. But it seems to have kinda fallen apart.

Especially the MLAT abilities (receiving traditional transponders pre-ADS-B) was really cool but it really needs a lot of feeders to be able to pinpoint them.

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by wolvoleo »

nehal3m wrote: post #44
ltrg wrote: post #23

This 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://www.marinetraffic.com has most AIS transponders, I use it to track friends on commercial and private vessels.

https://aprs.fi also shows AIS (as well as ham radio operators which is its primary function)

Re: Flightradar24 for Ships

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Post by amatecha »

tappaseater wrote: post #16
rustyhancock wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yup, nothing changes now, but I'd pretty confidently place bets that the tier will have reduced features compared to the "Business" tier (or whatever it's called now)
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