[ddj] AIS ship tracking data

[Ronnie Wonder]

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/centery: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
>
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>
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