AIS input and Google Earth?

[bradza]

Hi there,

Is there any possibility of bringing in AIS to display in realtime in the sim? With the amount of AIS tracking sites out there, there is a lot of data available, one site is marinetraffic.com but there are a few.

It would be great to perform simulations with realtime shipping positions through AIS. Perhaps a standard model for cargo, tanker and/or passenger liner could be selected with the values given by the API data?

Thanks.
Regards
Brad

[forum_admin]

Hi, that's certainly an interesting idea, I'll have a think about how it might be implemented.

[Johan]

AIS input and output. I'm interested in output to chart-plotter. If That can be done for GPS simulation also then for AIS. OpenCPN (http://opencpn.org) has AIS NMEA sentences capability according to OpenCPN User Manual (help_en_US.html#NMEASentences). I have OpenCPN 3.2.2 on at least one of my computers.

[forum_admin]

I will certainly look into this. It should be relatively simple to construct AIS data for the ships in the simulation, and send this to a chart plotter.

[bradza]

That will be great, looking forward to it! 

[Laro88]

AIS input would be fun - NMEA input handling for some of the online AIS sources would be interesting.

[elir71]

I wrote some experimental code to create AIS signals for ships ... which could be used as other ships, so that they would be visible to openCPN chart plotter.  The AIS transmissions use a 6 bit format. The code was very very bodgy and I am certain it could be done more elegantly. I will try to dig it out and post it