[ddj] AIS ship tracking data

Ani Hovhannisyan anihovh at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 15:12:58 UTC 2017


Hi everyone,

Josh,

thanks for sharing your experience with us!

Cheers,
Ani

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On 5 October 2017 at 09:09, Joshua Howgego <joshua.howgego at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> In case anyone is interested how this worked out -- it was pretty much
> impossible to get comprehensive data for free! But i reached out to a few
> companies and in the end one agreed to give me a snapshot of one day's data
> for all the ships of the ocean, as long as I credited them. So if you find
> you want anything like this in future, it would be worth asking the
> companies who sell it.
>
> All the best,
> Josh
>
> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Chris Dodds <chris.dodds at factivated.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a friend who built a whole business around the AIS data - it's
>> *very* expensive to get the (near) real time data you'd need to track
>> all the ships accurately
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Ronnie Wonder <ronniewonder at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Joshua,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the interest but would advise you do a scan over maritime
>>> and ports resources
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> Ronnie
>>> Freelance Writer & Accountant
>>> Uganda
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Peter Weenink <petergeo at xs4all.nl>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi Josh,
>>> >
>>> > Free shipdata might be very difficult to get. Do also have a look at:
>>> >
>>> > https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:20.2/cente
>>> ry:37.2/zoom:7
>>> > http://www.maritime-database.com
>>> > http://www.openseamap.org/index.php?id=61&L=1
>>> > https://www.fleetmon.com/vessels/
>>> > https://www.ihs.com/products/ais-live-ship-tracker.html
>>> >
>>> > If you need any help II ‘ll try.
>>> >
>>> > Cheerio, Peter Weenink
>>> > Working on: mapvision.eu
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > From: Joshua Howgego
>>> > Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2017 5:43 PM
>>> > To: List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism.
>>> > Subject: [ddj] AIS ship tracking data
>>> >
>>> > Hello all,
>>> >
>>> > I'm an editor at New Scientist magazine in London. I'm enthusiastic
>>> about
>>> > data journalism,but don't have a lot of experience.
>>> >
>>> > At the moment, I am thinking about a story I have coming up about the
>>> > shipping industry. I'd love to create a map that shows the locations
>>> of all
>>> > the ships on the ocean at one specific (recent) point in time and
>>> classifies
>>> > them according to class. Actually this interactive does exactly that
>>> > https://www.shipmap.org/ But I'd like to make my own version so I can
>>> > customise it.
>>> >
>>> > But my main issue is finding the data!
>>> >
>>> > There is lots of AIS data out there, but I'm struggling to find a
>>> > comprehensive and free source.
>>> >
>>> > I just wonder if anyone on the list has worked with shipping data has
>>> any
>>> > advice (or even might be interested in working with me to develop
>>> > something)?
>>> >
>>> > Josh
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> >
>>> > Josh Howgego
>>> > Science journalist
>>> >
>>> > www.joshuahowgego.co.uk
>>> > +44 (0) 7974 399776
>>> >
>>> >
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Ani Hovhannisyan
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