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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Carl Herzog
Date: 2010 Feb 22, 05:37 -0800
Marinetraffic.com is one of several such sites. Others include: vesseltracker.com, aislive.com and shipais.com.
Although to the casual observer it may serve as little more than a time-killing curiosity, these sites are marketing their data to shipping interests who are eager for live data. (Most shipping companies already have other sources of live data on their own ships.) For example, a blog on marketing for the shipping industry just posted on the value of these sites to sales efforts:
http://5956n.typepad.com/59_56_n/2010/02/marine-traffic-hogs-shiptracking-sites-are-booming.html
Additionally, I imagine these data streams are already in use by government policy makers on a wide variety of fronts.
Carl Herzog
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