On 04/11/10 11:32, Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently came across http://www.marinetraffic.com/, which tracks > shipping by means of their AIS transmitter, which all vessels over 299 > gross tonnes must carry. > > The data is transmitted by radio and includes position, speed, course, > rate of turn, as well as the vessel type, dimensions etcs.. The > project collects the data from various volunteer receivers and > collates it into a DB, and provides mash-ups over Google maps etc. > > I think there could be a very nice little project to incorporate a > data feed from their server through a proxy and into our MP network, > displaying marine traffic in real-time. This would completely obviate > the need for AI shipping routes, and at a stroke, the sea in FG would > become accurately populated. > > Unlike aircraft transmitting ADS-B updates, shipping is quite slow > slow and therefore has less of an interpolation problem, pluss it > doesn't really need to interact with our aircraft*, so this seems a > very good fit. > > Their tracking software is GPL, so one would hope that they would have > some sympathy with us, plus it would provide a way for them to > visualize their data. > > The only major downside I can see is that some ports are obviously > very busy - a quick look at Antwerp showed over 1000 vessels in a 50nm > radius. I guess this would have a significant impact on the MP > protocol, However, on the plus side, the ship models themselves are > very simple and wouldn't have any animations, so one would hope that > the frame-rate hit would be reasonable. > > Anyone particularly interested in taking this further? I may look at > it myself, and at least engage the people running the project, but > don't expect any quick results!
I'd love to see this implemented as a server could feed data into flightgear either via the mpservers, or locally straight into flightgear (preferably the option of both!) This way we get a whole load of interesting life in our environment. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
