PS06 is now not returning any data

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Michael Bender

• November 19, 2020 08:24

I have been using PS06 successfully but starting today (Nov 18th, 2020) I am finding that for the bounding boxes that I used to use I am not getting no data returned. The MT map shows me plenty of vessels with recent AIS timestamps. I am trying with the default timespan of 5 and also with the max timespan of 2880. in either case, I don't get any data back. Earlier in the day I was getting 2 vessels back with my API call using a timespan of 5 and four vessels with my timespan of 2880. The MT live map showed me that there were 14 vessels in my bounding box, most with recent terrestrial AIS transmissions.

Here are the two bounding boxes that I am working with:

"name": "alliance",
"coordinates": {
  "maxlat": "29.7279",
  "maxlon": "-89.9967",
  "minlat": "29.7000",
  "minlon": "-89.9732"
}

and:

"name": "belle chasse",
"coordinates": {
  "maxlat": "29.8493",
  "maxlon": "-90.0113",
  "minlat": "29.8141",
  "minlon": "-89.9801"
}

The "alliance" bounding box never returned any data and the "belle chasse" bounding box was returning just a few vessels earlier in the day, but both now return no data.

 

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  Philip Ikonomou

  • November 20, 2020 12:32

  Hello Michael Bender, 

   

  please ensure the min/max LONGITUDE values are correctly matched in this call. 

   

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  Michael Bender

  • November 19, 2020 21:16

  As a follow up, I also tried coordinates in the San Francisco Bay Area (Anchorage 9) and am receiving the same result - no data is returned from the API call despite the live map showing 10 ships, most of which has AIS updates within a few minutes of my query. I have over 700 credits available on my account. My bug report is request (#156232).

  $ python3 get_ships_in_area.py --maxlat 37.7695 --maxlon -122.3728 --minlat 37.7158 --minlon -122.3106 --timespan 2000
  
  

  

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  Michael Bender

  • November 19, 2020 21:27

  I can get my current credits balance using PU04 (which has a different API key than the one I use for PS06):

  $ python3 get_credits_balance.py
  credit_balance: 702 user_id: 123456 last_charged: 2020-11-19T21:10:39

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