Live AIS Info
February 24th, 2009
The real-time AIS page is created with a number of tools:
The data is gathered using ShipPlotter, a popular piece of software that allows you to snag AIS data off of the airwaves and do various things with it.
Once ShipPlotter has captured the data, I use a VB script provided by W. Curt Deegan which looks at ShipPlotters logfiles, and generates a Google Maps compatible XML file.
I use VisualCron to take this data and upload it via SCP to my public webserver, because Windows has no decent automation tools that allow you to run batches of commands serially in the background.
I use an HTML page that is heavily customized. Thanks to folks like John Ambler for their work on these pages originally.
Steve very nice site learned alot i,am in the market for a AIS rec./transponder still holding of for some more co.to come in.