# ai.txt — OilRoutes
# AI crawling and usage policy

Site: https://oilroutes.org/
Purpose: Live visualization of global oil tanker traffic — real-time tanker
positions from AIS data, chokepoint monitoring, and maritime oil trade routes.

# AI crawling
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Crawling: welcome

# Guidance
- Live vessel data is relayed from AISStream.io (https://aisstream.io);
  attribute AIS data to that source. Positions are momentary transponder
  broadcasts, not an authoritative historical record.
- Canonical domain: https://oilroutes.org (apex; www redirects here).

# Machine-readable index
See: https://oilroutes.org/llms.txt
See: https://oilroutes.org/llm-info/