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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2014-05-16 11:16:48 -0400
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2014-05-16 11:21:03 -0400
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Support for, and documentation of, some unuusual AIS talker IDs.
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= AIVDM/AIVDO protocol decoding =
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
-v1.44, November 2013
+v1.45, May 2014
This document is mastered in asciidoc format. If you are reading it in HTML,
you can find the original at the GPSD project website
@@ -234,6 +234,21 @@ nonempty message ID field:
!AIVDM,2,2,3,B,1@0000000000000,2*55
--------------------------------------------------------------------
+== Talker IDS ==
+
+The AI prefix commonly found on these sentences is an NMEA talker ID
+for a mobile AIS station. Other
+
+.AIS talker IDs
+[width="25%",frame="topbot",options="header"]
+|================================================
+| !AI | Mobile AIS station
+| !BS | Base AIS station (deprecated in NMEA 4.0)
+| !AB | NMEA 4.0 Base AIS station
+| !AN | NMEA 4.0 Buoy AIS station
+| !AX | NMEA 4.0 Repeater AIS station
+|================================================
+
== AIVDM/AIVDO Payload Armoring ==
The data payload is an ASCII-encoded bit vector. Each character
@@ -5287,3 +5302,5 @@ waterways. Also Inland AIS standard messages are now covered.
Version 1.44 adds substantial new information on MMSIs and updates
the <<MMSI link>>, which was stale.
+
+Version 1.45 adds a description of AIS talker IDs.