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Live ships map
- nalidixic 15y agoExtremely cool!
- ggchappell 15y agoVery nice, but I had to wonder why, of the thousands of ships whose positions are recorded, only 2 appear to be any significant distance from land. The answer is in the FAQ [1]: > The MarineTraffic system does not cover all the seas of the world, but only specific coastal areas where a land-based AIS receiver is installed. [1] http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/faq.aspx?level1=160#16 http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/faq.aspx?level1=160#16
- bcl 15y agoThe AIS transmissions are VHF (162MHz) so they are fairly short range, although with high gain antennas you can extend it a bit (with a corner reflector I once had intermittent data from a ship 600nm away).
- pixie_ 15y agoThere's a commercial service that offers global coverage with AIS receivers attached to satellites. http://www.orbcomm.com/services-ais.htm http://www.orbcomm.com/services-ais.htm
- b_emery 15y agoI'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 along even our small section of coast boggles the mind. There's a seasonal signal to it also. See [1] for example. [1] http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/10/la-port-traffic-in-september-exports.html http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/10/la-port-traffic-in...
- toomuchtodo 15y agoThis 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.
- b_emery 15y agoThis 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!
- hef19898 15y agoBesides the fun this is, setting up the recievers I mean, great hack with the self-calibrating radars, elegant and effetive, respect! Maybe one should integrate ship data to freight tracking services, so you can actually locate your container, well more the vessel!
- b_emery 15y agoThanks! I believe that there are some companies that do just that (the container tracking bit that is).
- toomuchtodo 15y agoVolunteer positions? =)
- ruethewhirled 15y agoThis 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
- TamDenholm 15y agoWas just thinking this, the new tool for pirates has got to be a laptop with this site open.
- josephjrobison 15y agoMaybe 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!
- eCa 15y agoThose 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]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz [2] http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8956 http://www.theoildrum.com/node/8956
- blantonl 15y agoThey don't have any data for the east coast of Africa because there probably aren't any receivers setup to receive AIS signals in that area.
- ruethewhirled 15y agoYeah after reading the FAQ I came to the same conclusion. But also realized that pirates wouldn't actually need this site and could just get their own AIS receiver's
- cpeterso 15y agoI see business opportunities for marinetraffic.com to offer higher resolution/precision maps to paying customer. ;)
- xelfer 15y agoThis is great, I live near one of the biggest ports in Australia. Great to be able to identify the ships I can see from my house.
- artursapek 15y agoWow. Notice the complete lack of anything around North Korea.
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- TazeTSchnitzel 15y agoNo AIS radio volunteers there :P
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- nowarninglabel 15y agoLack of data, due to lack of AIS receivers, not lack of shipping activity.
- gacba 15y agoCool! FlightAware for boat traffic.
- feverishaaron 15y agoThere are a lot of tankers sitting off the coasts. I wonder if they are holding oil that was delivered to speculators, awaiting sale?
- ahelwer 15y agoHere is a basic summary of the economic sense behind floating storage: http://oil-price.net/en/articles/the-case-for-floating-oil-storage.php http://oil-price.net/en/articles/the-case-for-floating-oil-s...
- protomyth 15y agoSome places have things like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Offshore_Oil_Port http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Offshore_Oil_Port that means the tanker doesn't have to come to a traditional port.
- twelvechairs 15y agoOften 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.
- philwelch 15y agoIt's not that silly when you work it out. You have a ship holding 2-3 million barrels of oil and a 20-40 crew. It looks like the market price of light sweet crude varies by as much as $1 per barrel per day. Which means a difference of 2-3 million dollars if you come to port today instead of yesterday.
- twelvechairs 15y agoNot silly in that sense. Silly in the pragmatic sense that expensive ships spend considerable amounts of time doing nothing...
- blantonl 15y agoFor those that are not aware, this is crowd sourced aggregation of data received by AIS (Automatic Identification System) VHF receivers which are hosted by volunteers who put up a receiver, antenna, and send the data received from the ships to this site.
- mcrider 15y agoWow, really cool. My apartment overlooks Vancouver harbour and I can see every ship thats on the map.
- entropie 15y agoAnd now i want some crewmen wi' long beards an' a frigate... ARRRRL
- TazeTSchnitzel 15y agoI live near the "oil capital of Europe" (I hate that name too), so there's quite a lot of ships floating around nearby. Very cool.
- alexbell 15y agoThey also have a great iPhone app.
- noinput 15y agoAm I the only one who searched for the Steve Irwin?
- mildavw 15y agoI 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/ http://demo.dedicatedmaps.com/
- davidvaughan 15y agoI'm building something that might be of interest to you. Would it be convenient to contact you? If so, how?
- mildavw 15y agodave@mailbolt.com
- leeskye 15y agoI have some friends who do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTE9Gr0ZmOc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTE9Gr0ZmOc I bet they would love this app.
- genkaos 15y agoSomehow related: http://www.localizatodo.com/mapa/ http://www.localizatodo.com/mapa/
- arebop 15y agoI've been using http://www.boatingsf.com/ais_map.php http://www.boatingsf.com/ais_map.php and I like this better because (1) it's not flash and (2) your dataset is slightly more detailed. I do miss boatingsf's animations, because it gives me a better idea about the path and trajectory of a ship than just a current position and heading.
- camiller 15y agoIn the popup for a particular boat click "Show Vessel's Track" which appears to show a set of previous position reports with a line drawn between them.
- chrissnell 15y agoNeat, but http://aprs.fi http://aprs.fi has had this for years. Live cars map, too. :)
- apaprocki 15y agoAt Bloomberg, we provide the same live vessel position via the BMAP function on the terminal mainly so that oil / natural gas traders can monitor and speculate commodities flows based on ship traffic and reported contents of ships. Someone posted a screenshot on this Quora question: http://www.quora.com/Investing/What-are-the-coolest-functions-on-Bloomberg http://www.quora.com/Investing/What-are-the-coolest-function... It is definitely fun to play around with. Similar tools are provided to slice/dice the data to look at all the vessels which match particular criteria. Similarly, all the data for positions of critical infrastructure (refineries, oil pipelines, power plants, etc) are provided as well as live storm tracking information so traders can determine if natural disasters will affect particular sectors or companies.
- bcl 15y agoIf you want to parse the AIS serial data you can use my AISparser project - https://github.com/bcl/aisparser https://github.com/bcl/aisparser
- davedx 15y agoI use this to track the ships my sister works on. Awesome resource :)
- garazy 15y agoThis site is really cool. Everyone interested in this sort of tracking should checkout PlanePlotter from COAA http://www.coaa.co.uk/planeplotter.htm http://www.coaa.co.uk/planeplotter.htm. It does a similar sort of thing but for planes which have ADS-B transmitters and a team of volunteers sharing data. It costs 25 euros to access the shared data but well worth the money (I'm not affiliated just a happy customer).
- stunr69 15y agoI have aggregated some of the other similar sources for vessel tracking:- http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml http://www.mariweb.gr/ecs http://www.mariweb.gr/ecs http://www.vesseltracker.com/app http://www.vesseltracker.com/app http://vesseltrax.com/ http://vesseltrax.com/ http://www.shippingexplorer.net/en http://www.shippingexplorer.net/en http://www.fleetmon.com/ http://www.fleetmon.com/ http://www.shiptracking.eu/ais/ http://www.shiptracking.eu/ais/ http://www.worldvtsguide.org/index.html http://www.worldvtsguide.org/index.html Similarly live air traffic from around the world is aggregated and it uses ADS-B technique to receive flight information from aircraft:- http://www.radarvirtuel.com/ http://www.radarvirtuel.com/ http://www.flightradar24.com/ http://www.flightradar24.com/ http://www.flightstats.com/go/Home/home.do http://www.flightstats.com/go/Home/home.do http://casperflights.com/ http://casperflights.com/ http://radar.piopawlu.net/ http://radar.piopawlu.net/
- smackfu 15y agoIt really needs a shaded overlay or similar that shows the coverage regions. If you don't know that a patch of sea isn't being monitored, it's not exactly reliable data.