I'm sure this is not a new thing, but I just found out about it, and I think it's pretty neat!
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I've found it fairly inaccurate and imprecise for purposes of ship spotting. Often it even says things like "2 hours ago".
For planes meanwhile, flightradar24 is absolutely excellent.
Learned this from the new digimon remake, lol.
This seems like a good place to mention Internet Historian just dropped a hour and a half long video on the Ever Given. It starts slow but it's goddamn hilarious
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Anyone else think this would be a fun game like geoguessr? Drop like 4 people in with a 10 minute time limit to find the best ships then you all vote on best name, best design, biggest, ect
I think you can only see the ones that are close enough to a coast that they get picked up by the AIS receivers.
If you’re interested in cruising (with ships, not the other kind), there’s cruisemapper.com.
Pirates on their way stealing a crate of shitty iphones
I started playing this game called Sky Cards and it’s kind of like this but for airplanes. So far, I like it!
Mildly interesting indeed!
It'd be even more interesting if an interface like this would estimate the carbon emissions per scheduled trip for these ships.
Surely one could estimate the impact based off of the ship class and distance.
Come to think of it, that'd also be interesting for a flight radar kind of website.