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.
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.
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.
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.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall–Peters_projection
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrical_equal-area_project...
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...
https://globe.adsbexchange.com
– is an alternative to FlightRadar24 with more data.
I'll prefer vesselfinder for marinetraffic.