From the Strait of Hormuz to Singapore: Building a Real-Time Ship Tracking Analyser with Flask and AISStream

A practical story about building a live vessel-tracking dashboard, hitting real-world data limitations, and turning a failed first location into a better geospatial prototype. I started this project with a simple idea: Can I build a small web app that watches ship movements in a strategic maritime area and turns live AIS data into something useful? The first target was the Strait of Hormuz. That choice made sense on paper. It is one of the most important maritime chokepoints in the world,...