[ gpsdrive ] making use of AIS data

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Mittwoch 14 Januar 2009 schrieb Doug Robinson:
> AIS traffic comes from a radio receiver via a serial link most generally.
>  Could be integrated using a Bluetooth stream as well.  As I understand it
> class A traffic (the big ships), transmit position twice a minute and
> generally are moving @ 5 to 25 knots.  Class B traffic (us little guys),
> are transmitting once a minute and could be at 6 knots for the rag driven
> and 35+ knots for the stink pots.  Guess I would recast the incoming
> traffic from AIS into the existing GPSDrive format as data off the friends
> server and have a look.

I guess, the data is coming from a local receiver connected to the computer, 
and not from an internet connection.
so it would be very easy to include this, if the application, that reads the 
data can write directly to the gpsdrive database as POI data, or gpsdrive 
connects in some way to this application.

I would suggest a poi type 'nautical.ais' for that, having additional 
subtypes, if the data is specified more exactly, like:
nautical.ais.port
nautical.ais.passenger_vessel
nautical.ais.cargo_vessel
nautical.ais.tanker
...






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