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.
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.
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...
Seems like it's just cargo ships? And presumably not even all of them.
I'll prefer vesselfinder for marinetraffic.
Seems to only have a tiny amount of ships compared to marinetraffic.com ?
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.
What is different from marinetraffic?
Marinetraffic is a good example of enshittification. Started well, now it's heavy and ad-laden, practically useless without a paid account.
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...
Sounds like Flightradar24
In case anyone isn't aware:
https://globe.adsbexchange.com
– is an alternative to FlightRadar24 with more data.
At least for FR24 you get a "Gold" account (no longer business) simply for running a feed.
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.
And what’s the similarity to flight radar?
A real time visualization using AIS instead of ADS-B feeds, presumably
as opposed to the dozens of other flight tracker sites?
I tried posting ais-catcher.org but it got ignored
Looking good! Thanks for sharing