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this repo is discontinued for now

locationsource

Solution to access machine readable AIS Data. This solution uses the free web solutions to crawl the data and returns them in json.

As this repo is a successor to the ais-api, lecacy parts are added (see legacy) Those will be removed in future versions.

Install on local machine

Requirements: npm & nodejs.

  1. clone this repo

  2. run npm install

  3. run npm run dev

Location Format

All locations are returned in this format: { timestamp: ISO 8601 latitude: longitude: course: in deg speed: in kn source: source_type: e.g. ais raw_data: (contains all the raw data) }

Legacy Paths

As this repo is a successor to the ais-api, some legacy paths are added. Those will be removed in future versions

/legacy/getLastPosition/:mmsi

Takes position from MT and from VT and returns the newest example: http://localhost:5000/legacy/getLastPosition/211879870

/legacy/getLastPositionFromVF/:mmsi

Returns position from VF example: http://localhost:5000/legacy/getLastPositionFromVF/211281610

/legacy/getLastPositionFromMT/:mmsi

Returns position from MT example: http://localhost:5000/legacy/getLastPositionFromMT/211281610

/legacy/getVesselsInArea/:area

Returns all vessels in area, defined by a list of area keywords example: http://localhost:5000/legacy/getVesselsInArea/WMED,EMED

/legacy/getVesselsNearMe/:lat/:lng/:distance

Returns all vessels near me, defined by a location in latitude, longitude, and distance example: http://localhost:5000/legacy/getVesselsNearMe/51.74190/3.89773/2

[{
  name: vessel.SHIPNAME,
  id: vessel.SHIP_ID,
  lat: Number(vessel.LAT),
  lon: Number(vessel.LON),
  timestamp: vessel.LAST_POS,
  mmsi: vessel.MMSI,
  imo: vessel.IMO,
  callsign: vessel.CALLSIGN,
  speed: Number(vessel.SPEED),
  area: vessel.AREA_CODE,
  type: vessel.TYPE_SUMMARY,
  country: vessel.COUNTRY,
  destination: vessel.DESTINATION,
  port_current_id: vessel.PORT_ID,
  port_current: vessel.CURRENT_PORT,
  port_next_id: vessel.NEXT_PORT_ID,
  port_next: vessel.NEXT_PORT_NAME,
},]

/legacy/getVesselsInPort/:shipPort

Returns all vessels in a port, named after the MT nomenclature example: http://localhost:5000/legacy/getVesselsInPort/piraeus

Output format identical to getVesselsInArea

Paths

/:sourcetype/:source/:vehicleidentifier/location/latest

find latest position for vehicle for specified sourcetype and source example: http://localhost:5000/ais/mt/211281610/location/latest

/:source/:placeidentifier/vehicles/

/:source/area/vehicles