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Posted by surprisetalk 4 days ago

Shipmap.org(www.shipmap.org)
792 points | 117 commentspage 5
henry_pulver 3 days ago|
This is mesmerising!

Really well made and enjoyed the audio explanation.

It's a shame that it includes the now-mandatory discussion of how this shipping is actually bad because of carbon emissions. Seems to me the widespread availability of cheaper goods has been a great thing for humanity on balance!

seizethecheese 3 days ago||
Interesting to see no ships in Hudson Bay, given its importance in early North American history.
afterburner 3 days ago|
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)
nickreese 3 days ago||
Where would one get the dataset for this. This would be awesome to build in realtime.
larodi 3 days ago||
Doesn’t seem to work on mobile for me on ios18 and iphone12
sxv 3 days ago||
An orthographic projection (globe) would be helpful to see e.g. new arctic routes.
ChrisNorstrom 3 days ago||
You don't always need background music during narration.
jryio 3 days ago||
Even at 1 hour ticks am I assuming that these are moving far too quickly?
scrumper 3 days ago|
I thought that too but they're surprisingly fast. I tracked a dot across the Atlantic (US East Coast to UK) and it took around 4-5 days, which is about right.

There's a very nice effect where if you zoom in, time slows.

vjay15 3 days ago||
amazing website and the voiceover was also really good!!
mhh__ 3 days ago||
There is a live version of this in the bloomberg terminal.
ainiriand 3 days ago|
'...Some more than a quarter of a mile long...' Sorry this information is not for me, I cannot deal in those units, I have no clue how much that is.
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