No More Cruise Ships

For the past four summers, starting in 2012, I’ve been operating a website that provides structured data – iCal, XML, JSON, RSS – about cruise ship visits to the Port of Charlottetown, a reaction to the lack of such data from the Port itself.

Now the Port is providing data itself – not in as many formats, and missing metadata like number of passengers, but from the horse’s mouth – and so I’ll suspend my own efforts.  More details here.

I’ve never known as much about the comings and goings of cruise ships as I have these past years; it’s been fun.

Comments

Dave Hyndman's picture
Dave Hyndman on April 17, 2016 - 16:09 Permalink

Oh no! I prefer yours. I have some nice IFTTT integrations into Slack, etc. Hopefully I can recreate them.

Is the Port just doing a Google Calendar?

Thanks for doing this for the past few years.

DAVE

Peter Rukavina's picture
Peter Rukavina on April 17, 2016 - 16:47 Permalink

Yes, it looks like the Port of Charlottetown is maintaining their data only in Google Calendar. Perhaps you can use your market might to influence them toward a greater variety and richness of data!