Transport

Name
Description
Cost
Tool Review and Guide

ADS-B Exchange

Live flight tracker (including many miltiary aircraft). Live data available for the past month. Historical data available for purchase by request.

Free

Airfleets

Database for aircraft details.

Free

Guide not available

http://airfleets.net/home

Airframes

A database of aircraft details

Free

Guide not available

http://www.airframes.org/

AirNav RadarBox

Live flight tracker.

Free

Guide not available

http://radarbox24.com/

Aviation Safety Network

Aircraft incident database; can be searched by country, registration, year, etc.

Free

Guide not available

https://aviation-safety.net/

Carnet.AI

"API which is capable of recognizing the Make, Model and Generation of most cars built since 1995, with 97+% accuracy."

Free

Guide not available

http://carnet.ai/

Chronotrains

Chronotrains is a free interactive map designed to explore the reach of Europe’s extensive rail network. Enter a starting point and travel time to see reachable destinations by train.

Free

Equasis

Equasis provides vessel ownership and safety records, as well as shipping company fleet information.

Free

Federal Aviation Administration

Nationwide Plane Registry. Search by N-Number (a.k.a. callsign). Comprehensive list of privately owned planes in the US.

Free

FlightAware

FlightAware is a global flight-tracking platform that provides real-time data on aircraft movements. It offers live tracking, historical data, and predictive analytics via its website and apps.

Partially Free

Flightradar24

Flightradar24 is a real-time flight tracking service that provides detailed information about aircraft positions, flight numbers, origins, destinations, historical data, and aircraft information.

Partially Free

GPSJam

GPSJam.org is a daily map that visualizes the GPS/GNSS disruptions on aircraft worldwide. It collects and presents 24-hour data showing areas experiencing interference.

Free

Icarus Flights

Flight tracking platform with 2 years free historical data; highly customizable search parameters

Free

Guide not available

https://app.icarus.flights/

Illegal, unreported, unregular fishing Vessels List

A combined list of known illegal, unreported, unregular fishing vessels

Free

IMO Registry

Ship/shipping-related information from the IMO

Free

Guide not available

http://webaccounts.imo.org/

License Plate Maps

Collection of tools and maps for discerning license plates by country

Free

Live ATC

Audio from air traffic control towers in the United States. Aircraft have to identify themselves to ATC towers, so in cases where aircraft are trying to obscure their information from other sites, it might be another way to grab tail numbers or just generally track flights. More complicated to use than e.g. Flightradar24.

Free

Guide not available

http://liveatc.net/

MarineTraffic

An open, community-based project, providing (near) real-time information on the movements of ships and their locations in harbours and ports.

Partially Free

OpenRailwayMap

a detailed online map of the world's railway infrastructure

Free

OpenSanctions

Open-source international database of sanctions data, persons of interest and politically exposed persons.

Partially Free

OpenSky-Network

Community, open source flight tracking network.

Free

Guide not available

http://opensky-network.org/

PlaneFinder

Live flight tracker.

Free

Guide not available

http://planefinder.net/

ShipFinder

ShipFinder is an application designed to track vessels in near real-time across the globe.

Partially Free

ShipSpotting.com

Community website for uploading pictures & details of vessels spotted around the world.

Free

Guide not available

http://shipspotting.com/

Tokyo MOU

Ship inspection/history database (PSC Database)

Free

Guide not available

http://www.tokyo-mou.org/

VesselFinder

Live marine vessel tracker.

Partially Free

WikiRoutes

Public transport database.

Free

Guide not available

http://wikiroutes.info/

Winward

Platform which combines maritime-related data.

Paid

Guide not available

https://www.wnwd.com/

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