well, all that info is freely available on websites like
http://www.planefinder.net - so FG is not intended to suddenly become a tool for such purposes, there are better solutions for this fortunately.
Also, while we have a nice "demo" now, there are still a handful of more or less serious issues to really come up with a compelling prototype that's ready for "primetime".
This includes things like segfaults (crashes) and memory issues (leaks) that still need to be teased out, but also fixes to the "extrapolator", which still has some bugs and shows weird movements/orientation at the moment.
Also, there's currently talks going on to generalize the current design such that it's no longer provider-specific (planefinder.net), and also not specific to supporting just aircraft.
In fact, ship AIS has been mentioned previously, and it would obviously be another use case here.
And then again, there are some real technical limitations on the fgfs/fgms side of things, especially with regards to the existing inefficient MP protocol, which simply isn't suitable to be used for updating 200+ entities regularly.
To make really promising progress here, we would need to add another "output adapter" that doesn't use the fgms network/protocol but instead the existing HLA/OpenRTI infrastructure to send out derivative motion information instead of position updates, but that will definitely take another 1-2 FlightGear releases (at least) ...
Also, let's keep in mind that there's a more holistic approach being discussed for the whole AI traffic system, to factor it out into its own standalone component that uses the MP system, like Durk and the fgms developers mentioned several times:
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