A buoy, beacon, RACON, light or IALA mark in the vessel feed was drawn
as a ship. A vessel record whose type names one, or whose MMSI is an
aid-to-navigation station's (99MIDxxxx), is now isAidToNavigation and
vesselModelSpec draws it as the fleet set's buoy of its mark (cardinal
N/E/S/W, port or starboard hand, safe water, isolated danger, special
mark; a red can when the type names no mark), at its built size and
flagged fixed so its model does not turn to a heading. Its icon is a
disc instead of a chevron.
AISStream now subscribes to AidsToNavigationReport by default, and the
server names each report's aid type code (0 to 31) as its kind instead
of reading it as a ship type.
Vessels, Transit and Rail turn nearby icons into fleet models at the
aircraft layers' distances. A vessel is drawn at its AIS length and beam
(static dimensions now reach vessel rows), standing at the sea surface; a
transit vehicle or train stands on its road or rail, raised by its type's
elevation, and is painted in its mode or category colour where the model
marks it.
ITU-R M.1371 encodes speed over ground in 0.1-knot units and course over
ground in 0.1-degree units, reserving the top code of each field for "not
available": SOG 1023 reaches us as 102.3 knots and COG 3600 as 360 degrees.
Both are finite, so numberValue passed them through as ordinary readings and
every consumer — vessel cards, the HUD, voice analyst queries — treated a
missing measurement as a real one.
Observed on a live AISStream feed of 3,062 vessels: exactly 3 records at
102.3 knots with no reading anywhere between 40 and 102.3, and 404 records
at exactly 360 degrees. One Dutch rescue boat moored at its station carried
both sentinels at once, so an analyst summary reported a maximum speed of
102.3 knots — faster than any vessel afloat.
Filter both at the store, where AISStream messages are decoded, so the
sentinels never enter the cache. Heading already had this treatment through
normalizedHeading with its own separate sentinel of 511.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Sameh Khamis