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That appears to be correct, based on the most recent chart and NOAA's definition of V-AIS.


http://www.charts.noaa.gov/PDFs/14833.pdf

https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publica ... ation.html

When I see the old Buffalo Fairway buoy now marked as the VAIS "Safe Water Becon", does that mean that it only exists on AIS & that it's no longer a real buoy?

Those are AIS Aids to Navigation. They can be real ais transmitters on actual buoys or they can be "virtual" computer-generated AIS features located where buoys should be.

On the Boatnerd (and most other) AIS site, they need to be manually categorized by a human as Aids to Navigation one initial time. Then they will show up as the proper category. Unfortunately, due to my real job, I just have not had time in the past 3 months to do that manual classification very often, but hope to update them within the next week or so.

If you click on the "levels" icon in the top right corner of the AIS map, you can turn on the Aids to Navigation. Depending on which receivers are online at the time, you will see about 100 or so Aids to Navigation that are already properly identified.

I also hope to work on correcting the vessel photos that currently show up as low resolution blurry photos.

Does anyone know what the undefined vessels currently at both ends of Lake Erie (and elsewhere) are? They seem to have been stationary for many days.
Thanks