On Tue, 8 May 2012, Eric Christensen wrote:
> Users of Winlink and Yotreps can transmit their positions via these services to a
> common database that is used by several websites (findU and ShipTrak come to mind) to
> show their positions and status messages. These are generally maritime mobile stations
> that are away from the pier making a passage or are otherwise traveling around. Would
> it be possible to have
aprs.fi tie into this database and pull the data?
Probably yes, given some work by me and some support from the maintainers
of such database. However,
There are plenty of Winlink stations already being gatewayed to the
APRS-IS (
http://aprs.fi/?c=raw&call=winlink&limit=50&view=normal) and
subsequently being shown on
aprs.fi. I thought they all were. What's up
with that?
I browsed around the winlink site a bit just now and could not find any
information about the common database you mention. I just woke up so I
might have just missed it. Can you give any specific information on it's
location, administrators, protocols, or something?
- Hessu