Adding AIS station location with AIS-catcher

[KF0LIH - Brad]

My station location is not shared with aprs.fi with the AIS-catcher software I'm using.   Is there a JSON formatted message that would allow me to POST manually the location of my AIS receiving station?   My station is KF0LIH.

Thanks in advance,

Brad - KF0LIH

[Heikki Hannikainen]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, KF0LIH - Brad wrote:

> My station location is not shared with aprs.fi with the AIS-catcher software I'm using.   Is there a
> JSON formatted message that would allow me to POST manually the location of my AIS receiving station? 
>  My station is KF0LIH.

Hi,

There's no API for that. The guide for AIS feeding at
https://aprs.fi/page/ais_feeding does spell out a procedure to place the
station on the map (Step-by-step instructions, step 8), but that's
unfortunately not working right now, because the marker placement /
context menu is bugging on the Leaflet map. I'll look into it.

- Hessu

[Uno Mortensen (LA4YUA)]

i have the same issue whit this, i do share to aprs but i cannot get my ais tower on the map

[Uno Mortensen (LA4YUA)]

Hey and tnx for repl to to this. I  saw there was alot on aprs which did it the same way  as I did, I rund aprx to plot me on the map, and in a buggy way I can go in on my icon and look, but the txt on received from is still black in color, not blue as it suppose to be, my call is la4yua

Regards  from 

Uno

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[Heikki Hannikainen]

Hi,

Apparently there was a bug in the code which mixed up APRS positions with
AIS positions. This caused some confusion and a bit of crashing of the map
sometimes, as the data was inconsistent, and some stations with the same
callsign had both APRS and AIS data.

I've fixed that now, and APRS locations should no longer adjust AIS
positions, and APRS stations cannot act as receivers for AIS data. This
does also, as a side effect, prevent posting the position of an AIS
receiver using APRS.

But I've now fixed the documented (although awkward) method of uploading
the position of the AIS receiver from the web, it was broken on Leaflet
maps until now: https://aprs.fi/page/ais_feeding

On Tue, 12 May 2026, Uno Mortensen (LA4YUA) wrote:

>
> Hey and tnx for repl to to this. I  saw there was alot on aprs which did it the same way  as I did, I rund aprx to plot me on the map, and in a buggy
> way I can go in on my icon and look, but the txt on received from is still black in color, not blue as it suppose to be, my call is la4yua
>
> Regards  from 
>
> Uno
>

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- Hessu