AISLive.com

[PhilipF]

Wondering if other here use this interesting site - shows the location of shipping in the World.

At present not all that helpful to non-subscribers. Anyone any idea as to what the different coloured position symols signify?

Philip

[megdbk]

The aislive.com site used to be open to all in its experimental days, but has become a subscriber site since May and much of its usefulness has been lost to those of us who can't pay a bundle of euros to use it.
Green ships are sailing, yellow ones are moored and red ones have lost contact temporarily.
I am campaigning for a scaled-down cheaper version of the subscriber site for people like me who have partners in the merchant navy. Until the site split into public and subscriber, I was able to tell where he was at most times and see details of eta in port. It used to have a search facility so I could easily find him amongst all the North Sea shipping. It was mostly useful for seeing when he was likely to be in range to make a phone call.
We understand the security reasons for not publishing so much detailed ship information on a public site but some sort of subscription and vetting of private subscribers could solve that. For us it was a really strong link, now it's just a bit of passing interest. Would anyone else be interested in paying something for better info and the reinstatement of the search facility.

[Dyflin]

You have raised an interesting use for this facility. I think it an entirely reasonable request to have such access. We don't you get the NUMAST to approach the company on behalf of the officers and get the company to pay the susbcription and give the logon details to each officer onboard to allow family access to where their loved ones are. Best of luck!

[landaftaf]

ahem ............... N O N O N O .............. ffs are you mad !
you should not even tell the missus about the ais system ........
look ahead - huh ! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif