Lot's more maps! Choose Map and click on the area you're interested in for the latest AIS. It's also easy to add a new map, so if there is an area you want covered, let me know.
Automatic map selection. Click on a ship name and you'll be shown a map with the ship drawn on it with the latest AIS data at the side.
Automatic ship following. With a ship selected, choose refresh and not only will you get a new map every few minutes, it will also follow the ship from map to map.
Alternatively, select a map, choose a refresh rate and watch the ships go by.
Ship tails: In order to have a better idea of movement, trails are now drawn behind the ships in red. These are the last 10 minutes of AIS position updates.
AIS History: a snapshot of the AIS data is recorded every 10 minutes. This data can be viewed in a variety of ways:
Click on AIS History
and select a map, date and time to see what was where. Useful if you return from a days photographing and you want to see what was in the river in the morning.
Click on a ship's name and you should see a red H link. Click on the H to see a whole days movement for that ship. You can also select the date and map.
Follow the slow running Sea Express 1 to and from Douglas H.
M takes you to a map showing the last recorded position.
H takes you to the AIS History for that particular ship
P takes you to a page of photos of that ship. Alternatively, click to cycle through the thumbnails. Move your mouse over the picture to see any comments.
V searches the
Passing record of when ships pass in front of gascam - roughly the times when a ship enters or leaves the Mersey.
Voting
The thumbnail pictures shown above are usually sorted by date, but the latest photograph may have be taken at night or in bad weather so might not be a good representation of the ship. You can change this by clicking on the P link and then clicking on the thumbnail picture you think is best (or worst). On the left hand side of the image will be a small voting form to allow you to rate the picture.
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Excellent
Very Good
Good
O.K.
Poor
By default, every picture is "O.K.". If you don't like it you can lower the rating to "Poor", otherwise you can increase the score by selecting "Good", "Very Good" or "Excellent". Don't worry too much about the descriptions I've used - all I'm after is a score between 1 and 5. You may wish to rate the photos on a scale of "I like it" to "better than nothing (just)" or think of your own scale.
The highest ranking pictures are also listed on the Top 10 photos link (actually the top 100). This will allow me and other photo contributors to see which ships and shots are most popular.
Passing
The Passing link records ships passing in front of my webcams, but is also a useful measure of ships entering and leaving Liverpool. If you click on the date link, you can see if the ship was captured on the webcam or if you click on the ship name you can see her latest AIS record on a map.
Webcams
There are currently two webcams pointing North to lennox: gascam with a good view of shipping and baycam with a wider view of the bay. Use the Gascam link to access these.
On the right hand side of the webcam pages is a 5 day rolling archive of webcam pictures. Select the day and hour to see what has passed in front of the webcam. Any AIS data from the Passing page will also be shown for that particular hour to help you identify the ship.
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