Dataharvest 2024 - the European Investigative Journalism Conference

We built a ship tracking device for 100 Euro, and you can do it too! Keeping track of commercial vessels and private yachts is key to many OCCRP investigations. We wanted to build our own tools to work on commercial databases. In this session, you will learn how different ship-tracking databases work, what you can get out of them, and how you can build a cheap device that will allow you to track ships from your desktop.