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How to watch US AIS traffic over the internet with MacENC - GPSNavX - March 25, 2007
1) Start MacENC (v5.00 or later)
2) Select "TCP/IP" on the "GPS" menu
3) In the Client (Receive NMEA data)
- Enter Host as 66.235.48.168
- Enter Port as 3047
- Select the "Enable" check box
4) Select "Connect" on "AIS/RADAR" menu
5) Select "Settings" button
6) Check the "Use GPS Port" button
AIS Targets should list into the AIS panel. Select any target and press "Scroll to"
If you wish to have the targets sorted from a GPS position either connect to a GPS or use the GPS simulator.
You now have your own VTS system!
The 66.235.48.168 AIS host has receivers in the Pacific North West, Southern California, Chesapeake bay and Portland Maine.
Wow - Jim Innes - March 26, 2007
WOW! Very neet.
- Eclipsemullet - March 26, 2007
Is it possible to track ships in the UK like this?
- GPSNavX - March 26, 2007
It is possible to track ships anywhere in the world if you can find an IP based AIS NMEA data server for a specific region. I only know of that server for the US.
And of course if you have your own AIS receiver you could broadcast its data stream to the world with MacENC using the TCP/IP NMEA data server.
- macsailor - March 31, 2007
Is this possible only with the MacENC and not with the GPSNavX?
- GPSNavX - March 31, 2007
TCP/IP NMEA data is a MacENC feature..
http://www.gpsnavx.com/html/compare.html
- adjuvantjfoster - April 2, 2007
Quote: GPSNavX
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject:
It is possible to track ships anywhere in the world if you can find an IP based AIS NMEA data server for a specific region. I only know of that server for the US.
And of course if you have your own AIS receiver you could broadcast its data stream to the world with MacENC using the TCP/IP NMEA data server.
http://www.yachtmarine.com/instruments/LIVEAISWORLD.html
provides a rather large and rapidly growing list of possibilities using the shipplotter software, which is, sadly only Windows based software.
http://www.shipplotter.com/
Seeing what is being done on the Windows side with Shipplotter makes me realize that pretty well anyone lurking on this list could motivate yachtmarine.com to add a tab for Mac based AIS servers, or start their own.
In my own case, I am pretty much content to have the internal stub antenna providing me with all of the AIS targets I need to know about in my own locality.....(grin).....
If a Mac OS X based AIS analog of "Trainspotting" appeals to you, you have the technology available to you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railfan#.27Virtual.27_Trainspotting
John
Yipes! - outstripp - April 4, 2007
They just added practically the whole east coast of the USA to the area being monitored. There's ships up the whazoo. :lol:
Spoke too soon - outstripp - April 4, 2007
It's just Chesapeake to Maine.
Cool - outstripp - April 5, 2007
I was monitoring ship traffic in MacENC last night and I noticed a ship coming into San Diego Harbor. I wondered if there were any SD webcams on at the time. It happened that there is one aimed at the cruise ship pier. It also happened that the ship I was monitoring was a cruise ship. I was able to monitor its location in MacENC and watch it dock on the webcam at the same time.
Sure beats TV.
- captainjack - April 13, 2008
Is the server still up? I've been using this server for awhile ( have not used it in the past 4 months) and now it seems to be down. I don't know if its me or them.
- GPSNavX - April 13, 2008
Already answered here..
http://macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/441/
- talk2dug - May 8, 2008
That Ip seems to no longer work. I am not getting any answer when I telnet to port 3047. ICMP seems to be either blocked or the host is down. I am running an NMAP on the IP now. NMAP came back with host down, after scanning all ports.
Ideas?
- jagasail - March 1, 2009
Any update on this for US locations? I'm taking a CG coarse and we were discussing AIS - made me curious about it again. I saw on another post an address for one that works showing Sweden.
- brak - March 1, 2009
Would you mind sharing a link? I can't seem to find one for Sweden either
- jagasail - March 1, 2009
Actually there was a lag between when I saw the post and I wrote the above. Looking back it may only be for one location in Sweden. Here's the post:
http://www.macsailing.net/fbb/showtopic.php?tid/516/
Scot
- brak - March 3, 2009
And that one is down too.
This is one of a challenges of development for NMEA - getting good data is difficult and sources on the net are few.