Saillogger Community

The current coverage is stunning! I can appreciate the amount of data involved which I assume could be downloaded in real time in small chunks specific to the localized area of interest? Perhaps have to zoom to a minimum level before data becomes visible. Perhaps a unified Fleet view where vessels which are broadcasting weather can be identified by a small flag (or color). With regard to AIS: more helpful to me than seeing clusters of targets would be searching for a specific boat name/mmsi by submitting that criteria to the server.

I'd Love to see some consideration on the idea of two community-wide anonymous fleets to deliver a crowd-sourced weather overview and the ultimate directory for small boat AIS traffic.

Weather-Fleet

All participating member vessels on the fleet map could be shown as merely their vessel icon (no name) with a bubble displaying the local weather they are experiencing now. We could pan around this “weather-fleet” and view “real-time” weather from sailloggers that are currently in waters of interest. True Wind, Temp, Sea Temp. Pseudo weather-bug/station model.

AIS-Fleet

Even more interesting - is a unified display of the AIS traffic collected from all the saillogger AIS contributors with a search box to “find” vessels by name or MMSI. In other words, an “AIS-Fleet” that unifies all the pink AIS targets picked up by all the sailloggers. Over time, this will provide superior coverage and be more up-to-date than the sources that rely on random collection schemes to relay AIS data like Marinetraffic, etc. The vessels of interest to me often vanish from AIS for weeks or more because they boat far from shipping lanes and away from the safari tour boats, etc. But they voyage and anchor around other small boats and among them an increasing number of Sailloggers. Locating AIS vessels, friends or otherwise, in the off-grid areas is a value that Saillogger could fill. Bye-bye Marinetraffic.