This is beautiful but I really wish the land was green or some more obvious color. Zoomed out it is easier to tell but when it zooms in tightly I'm completely lost (maybe I'm just an idiot?).
Fascinating, but the dataset is obviously incomplete – there's barely any traffic in Europe until mid april. January-march looks as if there's been a zombie apocalypse.
kogus 1/7/2026||
This is beautiful and well done. For realtime shipping information, may I suggest this:
I used this when I took a sightseeing trip to the Soo Locks, so that I could plan the best time to see the ships. Pretty cool zooming in from a global view to a single ship sitting right in front of me.
isolli 1/8/2026||
It's beautiful, but... I'm confused by the role of the play button. Can somebody explain how it works? I click on it and seemingly random things happen.
gampleman 1/8/2026||
Turn on your sound. There is voice over narration.
unbalancedevh 1/9/2026||
9 May 2012 at about 20:00, a dot comes streaking out of the east, across Africa and into the Atlantic. What's up with that?
altern8 1/7/2026||
I'm getting "Please use a modern browser to view this content", but I'm running the latest version of Chrome.
Says WebGL is not supported..?
hsuduebc2 1/8/2026||
Kinda impressed that even this is ten years old it runs smoothly. These days javascript apps were much more sloppy.
seizethecheese 1/7/2026|
Interesting to see no ships in Hudson Bay, given its importance in early North American history.
afterburner 1/8/2026|
It was only good as a way for the British to get into the north for fur trade, since the French controlled Canada/New France (and the St Lawrence/Great Lakes waterways)