"Børge Wedel Müller" wrote in news:439473d3$0
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Damn good idea, we must promote it all over.

It must not be a IALA A and B solution, that's a looser thing....

regards
/B›rge - Denmark -Scandinavia




I just think the organisation that installs most of the obstructions, the
bouys and markers and jetties, should be the ones to maintain the
database AIS uses to place these obstructions on your screens. When the
bouy tender changes out a bouy, it spots it location via GPS and that
data goes in immediately, not after grinding its way through a huge
bureaucracy, but locally, so any faulty data can also be corrected,
immediately, locally.

"Coast Guard, this is the pilot boat. Marker 22 has been dragged about
200 meters to the southwest of its position by the heavy surf and current
we had last night."

CG immediately issues a notice to mariners, now. When, in 2048AD by the
time they arise from the seemingly dead and get AIS online, the person
generating the notice to mariners also updates the position and WARNING
to the fixed-position AIS transmitter for the area. Coming down the
channel, you suddenly see this alarm and bouy movement to its true
position. No paper form had to be digested onto a paper chart. No
multi-week delays even getting the notice to mariners from the bloated
bureaucrats.

AIS could easily do this IF the authority tasked with that bouy's
maintenance is also tasked with its AIS data transmission....

I'm also heavily in favor of them installing a wide area repeater on the
big TV tower to extend the range of this data output further than the 8
miles their VHF range always seems to be....