[ddj] AIS ship tracking data

[Chris Dodds]

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/
> 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
> >
> > www.joshuahowgego.co.uk
> > +44 (0) 7974 399776
> >
> >
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