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English forum => Ship Simulator Extremes => General discussions => Topic started by: LoneWolfDon on January 05, 2011, 07:07:44

Title: Worldwide Live Marine Traffic
Post by: LoneWolfDon on January 05, 2011, 07:07:44

Hey guys. I was just doing a bit of web surfing, finding out more about ship terminology and such... anyways, I happened across a really neat web site and I thought some of you here here might be interested to know about it as well:

http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/

You can see a Worldwide Marine map, click on a location and it will bring up the area to see. You can see a live map representation of Ports from all over the world. You can search by vessel and track it, see where it's at currently, search by port, zoom in and out on a map, set map display to various modes as Map, Satellite, Hybrid, Terrain. Set the legend to show names of ships, show certain types of vessels, etc...

There's also a really nice picture gallery of various ships. Cool stuff!  :)

Title: Re: Worldwide Live Marine Traffic
Post by: Denis on January 05, 2011, 08:37:33

Hi LoneWolfDon,

Thanks for those who didn't know this website yet, but ...

http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,14526.0.html
http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,20608.0.html
http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,18461.0.html
http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,17098.0.html
http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,14276.0.html
http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,16140.0.html

Please don't forget to use the forum's search tool !  ;)

Title: Re: Worldwide Live Marine Traffic
Post by: LoneWolfDon on January 05, 2011, 10:04:32

Ooops. Sorry.
I'll try and remember the search next time.

Title: Re: Worldwide Live Marine Traffic
Post by: Denis on January 05, 2011, 10:18:25

no problem :)

Title: Re: Worldwide Live Marine Traffic
Post by: mvsmith on January 05, 2011, 13:44:04

Hi Don,

If you use the Search box in the upper right, the current board is the root for the search. That can miss a lot.
It is better to use Search on the left end of the top toolbar—next to Help. It gives you much more control.
Here’s a quick example of using it to find help on missions:
http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,19792.msg271057.html#msg271057 (http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,19792.msg271057.html#msg271057)

Regards,
Marty

Title: Re: Worldwide Live Marine Traffic
Post by: LoneWolfDon on January 05, 2011, 13:49:34

Okay, thanks for the tip.

I did try the search feature a few times already, and I guess that right-side search feature may have threw me off a few times as I didn't know it just searched only the current forum I was in.

So in future for more a thorough searching I'll use the left-side Search option.
Cheers.

Title: Re: Worldwide Live Marine Traffic
Post by: Robert67 on January 05, 2011, 14:32:33

Try this with Google Earth

http://www.shippos.dk/shippos001.kmz

Robert