External AIS data ingestion (e.g. AISstream.io) + message rate limits?

[armandfardeau]

Hi,

First of all, thanks for the great project.

I have a question regarding external data ingestion. I’m interested in feeding AIS data from third-party sources (for example, https://aisstream.io/) into AIS-catcher alongside an SDR/local receivers.

Is it supported / acceptable to push AIS data from external services like AISstream into AIS-catcher?

[jvde-github]

Hi Armand, thanks for your interest in the project.

It is a very flexible tool but I would prefer to only share data directly from AIS-receivers to keep it a useful tool for people to get a sense of the (relative) performance of their station. So no experimentation with synthetically generated or scraped data please :-)

I have not been very explicit on that so it is a good question. In principle I would say, no scraped, synthetic or stolen data to keep the feeds as clean as possible. As another point, their might be an IP block if synthetic data is send, let me know if this happened and will undo it (my gmail is jvde.github).

Kind regards, Jasper

[armandfardeau]

Thanks for the prompt answer.

Would it make sense to allow a data feed to be injected into AIS-Catcher but not shared with the community?

[jvde-github]

Yes, that makes a lot of sense. For now you need to use a two stage rocket, one instance of AIS-catcher decoding and sharing and then send it to a second instance that aggregates the two sources.

The underlying functionality you describe is there if you are willing to play with command line settings but it is far from user friendly. Need to think how this would fit in the control tool in a stable way.....

[jvde-github]

I have added zone concept to AIS-catcher and Control tool to make it easier to share for example data from the SDR with the community but keep other data (like aisstream) only local. Comments and feedback welcome.

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