[Talk-GB] GPS longboat positioning

[Gareth L]

I’d not discount AIS. It’s deemed mostly for shipping because it’s mandatory if a vessel is over 300 gross tonnage, but it can be applied to canal boats, and even buildings!. An ais transponder is not the cheapest, typically £250-500, and may not compare well with a vessel of that size.
People with a land based AIS receiver can usually share their feed on the internet and get free access to a global api, otherwise you need to pay to access the feed (similar to how you see in marinetraffic.com or vesseltracker.com). A map can be embedded and filtered on the vessel(s) wanted, if desired.

For your immediate needs, https://locatoweb.com/en/features appears to do what’s wanted. An embeddable real time gps trace map for your website is available.

This is not something I’ve ever had to use.. so I dunno if there are hidden fees beyond signup. It just states:
Limitations
This service is expensive to maintain and we reserve the rights to block excessive usage and abuse if necessary.
LocaToWeb can be used for business purposes, but then a Business Account is required!

But whether that applies to you? I’m unsure.

Gareth

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Hi all,

please see below an email send to Anglia Linux User list. As this is more relevant to OSM forum I decided to paste it here.

Phil Thane phil at pthane.co.uk<mailto:phil at pthane.co.uk> przez<https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1311182?hl=pl> earth.li

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Hello all,

As the N Wales and Wrexham recipients of this will know, I'm not a developer, the Anglian recipients probably don't know me at all but I moved here a couple of years ago. Over the last 15 years I've written a lot about Linux and FOSS for various magazines and websites, but I'm no expert, so bear with me.

Now I'm mostly retired I have a river/canal cruiser. Last year I did a single-handed trip of about 10 days in each direction to a boat show. So that my family could keep track I enabled 'find my phone' on my mobile and gave them the login details. OK as far as it goes but not ideal obvs. I also blogged<https://pthane.co.uk/day-1/> each day and then wrote it all up for a boat magazine. This year I plan a longer trip - to the Llangollen International Eisteddfod - about 3 weeks each way. I've sorted out WIFi and a laptop charger on the boat so I can blog better, now I'd like to improve the mapping. The ideal would be a map I can embed in a WP page on my website, that updates every few minutes as I travel. GPS from either my phone, or if really necessary a dedicated GPS device.

Does anyone know if such is already possible using OSM + plugins etc? I've had a quick look online but most advice refers to Google maps. Most of the rest gets very technical very quickly. Goes over my head.

Plan B, is there a dev out there looking for a project? Unpaid and 'free' naturally! Would it feasible to create something like FlightRadar' that displayed boat positions on inland waterways? There is already marinetraffic.com<http://marinetraffic.com> for shipping, but that's way too big. I'm thinking of something boat owners could subscribe to that was available online and capable of being embedded in a webpage.

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Phil

Hopefully someone might have ideas, I'm interested myself as fair few other uses come to my mind.

Cheers,
Bart

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