ship color

[John Ward]

There are numerous tugs on the east coat of the us marked in yellow (high speed craft)  is there a way to correct this???

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From the RIVER SIDE DESK of jrw_mdus

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   ELK RIVER BASIN & the C & D CANAL, 

                             MD USA

              39.517721N  75.871084W  

[Dick Frakes]

I think alot of commercial vessels pick the wrong colors on purpose just to identify their vessels. When they could just set their own fleet up so as to see only there own vessels. I agree it sucks and I wish marine traffic could send these vessels a msg to change them or better yet change them and send a msg saying what they did. They could also send them a request first to make sure things are correct. But when you so a barge colored as a high speed vessel you know it's wrong. I have also seen them shown as pleasure craft.

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[Ken]

I am guessing that Marine Traffic has nothing to do with the "color"
of a ship on the map. I think it has to do with how the information
was filled out on the AIS information sheet when the AIS transponder
was installed and registered.

On May 1, 9:40 am, morgan rees <morganz1...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> SAME IN THE UK, SOME OF THE SHIPS THAT PASS, (TANKERS) COME UP PINK. I
> DONT KNOW WHY.

[oZgur]

yes, ships type (and color) information comes from AIS transponder
configuration on ship site..
if you see something wrong, call that ships agency.. :-)

Cpt. oZgur Okten
www.gemitrafik.com

[Walter Runck]

Marinetraffic has everything to do with the "color" of the ships on its
website. The AIS transmitters on the ships send a coded number that
indicates what type of ship. This is input by whoever programs the
transmitter. There is no color at this stage, just a number.

When someone wants to do a visual representation of AIS data, they can use
color if they want. It will be arbitrary and will only reflect what type of
ship the programmer set the transmitter up for. Not the actual type, color,
owner or anything else about the ship.

That said, it seems like most software at least show tankers in red. That's
about the only trend I've noticed.

If you have a boat and a smartphone, get an MMSI for the boat, download the
iAIS app and see for yourself.

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[Dick Frakes]

I have filled out the information sheet for my boat with the tech installer. Trust me - the color coding being used by marinetraffic.com has nothing to do with AIS.  Marinetraffic's instructions are very easy to understand. The vessels that can't read or follow instruction are 1. Barges 2. Passenger boats that transport workers to   platforms. That's covers about 90%. The more responsible vessels seem to follow instructions.

[George Sloane]

Correct. The ship color is dictated by the type of vessel it is. This code is entered into the shipboard AIS equipment as well as the port information.  Note that the port information as well as the "status", i.e. underway, anchored, etc., is entered manually on many vessels as well.  Hope this helps.

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