Talk:Automatic identification system

SOLAS Link?
The "SOLAS" link, in the first section, points to something completely random, although still called SOLAS...
 * Thanks to user 81.99.38.3, who fixed this on November 19, 2006.

NY Times article about ships spoofing GPS info into AIS
Today I read an article in the NY Times today about ships faking their GPS location to indicate that they are somewhere other than where they actually are. In looking at this Wikipedia article, it seems that this NYT article could have some good info to go into the section about Spoofing. This would help broaden that section from being only about Ukraine and Russia, and would provide a larger context for why spoofing is happening. I don't personally have time tonight to add info from this NY Times article, but I thought I'd leave this info here in case any other editors have the time to do so. - Dyork (talk) 23:28, 5 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Done. The very same article can also be used to provide more info on the technical aspects of spoofing, but for now I just focused on the (non-military) use of it. MichielN (talk) 16:41, 7 July 2023 (UTC)

Updates needed
This article needs serious updates from someone more knowledgeable than I, .     Jim. .  (Jameslwoodward)   (talk to me) 21:52, 4 October 2022 (UTC)
 * There's no mention of NMEA 2000 (N2K), which has completely replaced NMEA 0183 in new installations and largely replaced it on older vessels.
 * We're told that the AIS unit gets position from an external GPS. That may have been true when AIS was first introduced, but even the ten year old Furuno FA50 has its own GPS.
 * There are several mentions of gyro-compasses, but no mention of satellite compasses which have been replacing gyro-compasses for at least five years. Much cheaper and no maintenance.