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I'm going to write a game and include simulated shipping based upon real data.

MarineTraffic.com has some great data, but I really don't need it to be live, up to the minute. I could use data that was captured a year ago or so, maybe hourly.

I've also looked at fleetmon.com and vesselfinder.com, but alas, they all want money. I've searched for a Google fusion table of maritime traffic, but no joy.

shipfinder.co looks interesting....

http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/commercial-vessel-density-october-2009-2010-ais-national might be what I want but when I follow the hyperlink to ftp://ftp.csc.noaa.gov/pub/MSP/AIS/CommercialVesselDensityOctober2009-2010National.zip it says "Page not found".

I'm going to write a game and include simulated shipping based upon real data.

MarineTraffic.com has some great data, but I really don't need it to be live, up to the minute. I could use data that was captured a year ago or so, maybe hourly.

I've also looked at fleetmon.com and vesselfinder.com, but alas, they all want money. I've searched for a Google fusion table of maritime traffic, but no joy.

shipfinder.co looks interesting....

http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/commercial-vessel-density-october-2009-2010-ais-national might be what I want but when I follow the hyperlink to ftp://ftp.csc.noaa.gov/pub/MSP/AIS/CommercialVesselDensityOctober2009-2010National.zip it says "Page not found".

I found http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/2011-atlantic-vessel-density but it has a 500 meg .gdbtable file that I don't know how to interpret.

I'm going to write a game and include simulated shipping based upon real data.

MarineTraffic.com has some great data, but I really don't need it to be live, up to the minute. I could use data that was captured a year ago or so, maybe hourly.

I've also looked at fleetmon.com and vesselfinder.com, but alas, they all want money. I've searched for a Google fusion table of maritime traffic, but no joy.

shipfinder.co looks interesting....

I'm going to write a game and include simulated shipping based upon real data.

MarineTraffic.com has some great data, but I really don't need it to be live, up to the minute. I could use data that was captured a year ago or so, maybe hourly.

I've also looked at fleetmon.com and vesselfinder.com, but alas, they all want money. I've searched for a Google fusion table of maritime traffic, but no joy.

shipfinder.co looks interesting....

http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/commercial-vessel-density-october-2009-2010-ais-national might be what I want but when I follow the hyperlink to ftp://ftp.csc.noaa.gov/pub/MSP/AIS/CommercialVesselDensityOctober2009-2010National.zip it says "Page not found".