Radarspotting

I must have missed this or has this product been available for some time?

No pricing details (which makes me think it's not cheap) and aimed for the "professional"market.  Might alos explain the offer of a free RadarBox?

http://www.airnavsystems.com/FlightData/index.html

There's also a Ship Data version which must be reselling data from AISHub?

 Hi Anmer  I know you told me not to post any AIS CRAP! The shiptrax-pro is £399.95.shiptrax-3d is £489.95

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Hi Billko

These products are XML data feeds not receivers.

Hi Mike. As a newbie  and Naive on this hobby. Could you please enlighten me what  XML Is?.Also was Thinking of buying 1 of the trax boxes

                                                                              Billko

XML = Extensible Markup Language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML

Basically a set of "agreed" tags that enables "machine readable" information to be shared.

An example is the data used for the Basestation popup Aircraft Details window.

If you have an SBS-3 do you need another receiver?

 Hi Again Mike. Sorry to be a pain . Thanks to you Mike the aircraft side of the sbs-3 is very enjoyable to me. I run that side on my desktop which I want to keep,Living on the banks of a very busy port system I would like to run the AIS side on my laptop. I've read the Manuals from front to back an back to front. Please correct me if' am wrong I can only run one mode 1 at a time? not side bye side  at the same time? from the sbs-3. That was why i was looking at the receiver for AIS.

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Well I don't know about the flight data but it appears to me that Airnav will be selling on data freely obtained from other AIS networks, there is no way that they have built up a large network of their own with "over 100,000" ships worldwide.
http://www.airnavsystems.com/ShipData/index.html

Food for thought.

Hi Jamie. Whats this tworks software all about? Says AIS needs it to run?.
   
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Quote from: shakysen on March 12, 2012, 10:43:30 AM
Please correct me if' am wrong I can only run one mode 1 at a time? not side bye side  at the same time? from the sbs-3. That was why i was looking at the receiver for AIS.                                                                                                       

My understanding (yet to be tested) is that you can use the SBS-3 SDRs for AIS data and feed this into ShipPlotter.  I may be wrong?

Quote from: Jamie on March 12, 2012, 11:17:44 AM
Well I don't know about the flight data but it appears to me that Airnav will be selling on data freely obtained from other AIS networks,

Yes, that's how I read it but the AISHub has ambiguous Terms of Use:

TERMS OF USE
......
3) There are NO RESTRICTIONS how the members will use the data. Everybody is allowed to publish the data for free or to use it for commercial purposes.

 Hi Anmer. Box of tricks £489+ tworks? + shipplotter expensive. I'll switch between Modes Mike.

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Hi Mike. The advert for the box states. It receives data (AIS,TCP/IP,AIS needs tworks) to allow to track ships

                                                                            Billko

Can you please post a link for the webpage?

"includes details on over 100000 ships worldwide."

It's over 100000 ship details from shipspotting.com

Don't think they are talking about the active ships on the AIS ShipTrax Network/AISHub.net

Just like how the AirNav Radarbox network has details from gatwickaviationsociety.org.uk / FAA data,etc...

Avoiding too much thread drift, does anyone know about the XML Flight Data?

It's has been on the site for a long time (over 1 year).  that's all I know about it.

FAA doesn't want to deal with small users. It's better to let 3rd parties(AirNav) to sell that type of XML service.

Thanks Brian.

 Hi mike heres the link http://www.wsplc.com/acatalog/SHIPTRAX-3D_World_Wide_Ship_Tracking_System_For_PC_with_3D___Google_Earth.html 

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Thanks Billko.

I couldn't see any mention on "tworks"?

Hi Mike.  in the  advert it reads (AIS,TCP/IP, AIS needs tworks). Anyway Mike you are right I have AIS in the sbs-3 so why buy another receiver


                                                                            Billko

Aha:

".....(AIS, TCP/IP, AIS Nees tworks)"

I think that's just sloppy copy by W&S and should read:

"....(AIS, TCP/IP, AIS Networks)"

See the PDF linked from the W&S website.

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 Hi Mike You are right,  But very misleading .Anyway they have lost a sale!!!!!!!!!.

                                                                      Billko

I'm not a fan of W&S advertising and nor is the Advertising Standards Authority which has found some of its adverts to be misleading!