Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Maritime traffic

2011-12-18 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Saturday, December 17, 2011 23:19:16 Stuart Buchanan wrote: > Great work Adrian, > > I had something similar working in January - I think I posted > something to this list. My system used an AI scenario to > create a number of ships, and then used a perl script to > query www.marinetraffic.com

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Maritime traffic

2011-12-17 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Adrian Musceac wrote: > On Friday, December 16, 2011 14:57:24 Olivier wrote: > Type's already done (sort of), but the foam I have no clue how to get rid of > it other than a different model. > Some images near Amsterdam harbour: > http://i.imgur.com/gNBqS.jpg > htt

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Maritime traffic

2011-12-16 Thread Adrian Musceac
On Friday, December 16, 2011 14:57:24 Olivier wrote: > Hi, > > That's a nice start! Are you grabbing data from: > http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ ? Yes. aprs.fi also has a good feed, although more oriented towards ham radio APRS. AisHub has very detailed NMEA data, but they require you to send

[Flightgear-devel] Re : Maritime traffic

2011-12-16 Thread Olivier
Hi, That's a nice start! Are you grabbing data from: http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/ ? In fact, depending on the data format, you may obtain the speed & the type of the ship with AIS. So if speed=0, you should use a ship without wakes (eg ship in a harbour, and display a type depending on th