ltrg6 hours ago
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/
nehal3m8 minutes ago
https://www.marinetraffic.com has most AIS transponders, I use it to track friends on commercial and private vessels.
joezydeco2 hours ago
https://aisvesseltracker.com/ is a good one too. Shows a LOT more, including cruise ships and pleasure craft.
landl0rd30 minutes ago
It's also a bit limited. The gold standard is still kpler.
cess115 hours ago
Thanks for the recommendation, looks interesting. I've used Vessel Finder due to something being a nuisance with Marine Traffic.
dwedge4 hours ago
Years ago I used to subscribe to a service that did this for oil tankers and tried to estimate oil to each route, they wrote a weekly summary. Eventually they decided they only wanted enterprise clients and not people like me who, working in devops, had no need for this service at all and only paid the $20 a month out of some weird fascination
general_revealan hour ago
It 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.
0dayman18 minutes ago
I don't see any of the American destroyers in Hormoz
urba_2 hours ago
I 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
victorbjorklund9 hours ago
What is different from marinetraffic?
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n2j38 hours ago
Marinetraffic is a good example of enshittification. Started well, now it's heavy and ad-laden, practically useless without a paid account.
dry_soup8 hours ago
Sounds like Flightradar24
jen729w7 hours ago
In case anyone isn't aware:
https://globe.adsbexchange.com
– is an alternative to FlightRadar24 with more data.
mike_dan hour ago
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...
oncallthrow6 hours ago
Unfortunately adsbexchange does not allow you to see the source/destination of flights
esseph3 hours ago
Untrue
Click on the aircraft, then click on Flight Activity.
rustyhancock7 hours ago
At least for FR24 you get a "Gold" account (no longer business) simply for running a feed.
tappaseater7 hours ago
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.
Noaidi7 hours ago
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...
dzhiurgisan hour ago
Any of these provide satellite data without charge?
Also - is there any sites that publish parsed data from SAR sats?
wodenokoto9 hours ago
And what’s the similarity to flight radar?
notahacker8 hours ago
A real time visualization using AIS instead of ADS-B feeds, presumably
wodenokoto7 hours ago
as opposed to the dozens of other flight tracker sites?
esseph3 hours ago
This is ships not aircraft
throw0101c7 hours ago
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...
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sgt10 hours ago
Seems to only have a tiny amount of ships compared to marinetraffic.com ?
jameshart7 hours ago
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.
moffkalast3 hours ago
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.
Levitating7 hours ago
Seems like it's just cargo ships? And presumably not even all of them.
I'll prefer vesselfinder for marinetraffic.
gehsty6 hours ago
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.
dmarinus7 hours ago
I tried posting ais-catcher.org but it got ignored
gerry_shaw6 hours ago
Doman needs to be www.ais-catcher.org
amelius4 hours ago
Did anyone spot the USS Abraham Lincoln?
appointment2 hours ago
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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sublinear2 hours ago
Off 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.
nodesocket5 hours ago
This seems useful speculating on short term oil prices. I believe the straight of hormuz may be closed or rumor of closing. Every expert seems to think that will spike oil prices.
newzino6 hours ago
These tools went mainstream when the Houthis started hitting container ships. Watching AIS transponders go dark or vessels suddenly diverting around the Cape was something you just couldn't get from news coverage. And with Hormuz tensions right now, the real-time value is even higher.
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vldszn8 hours ago
Looking good! Thanks for sharing