Shipmap.org
shipmap.org
Shipmap.org
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#2This is pretty amazing to watch!
I did just watch a dot go through the Great Lakes, to Chicago, then take to the air and make a bee line straight to the Gulf of Mexico. Probably some weird artifact but made me chuckle.
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#3Like interactive documentary, loved it!
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#4It appears to cover only the year 2012.
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#5I'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..?
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#6Even at 1 hour ticks am I assuming that these are moving far too quickly?
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#7It appears to cover only the year 2012.
Live data is shown here: https://www.marinetraffic.com/
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#8Used this when I moved internationally. Cool to watch your stuff moving around the world!
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#9This is weirdly beautiful, like the maps of undersea internet cables that frequently come up here as well.
You can clearly see:
1) oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf from the Middle East to China
2) ships waiting to get through the Panama and Suez Canals
3) why people talk about “shipping lanes”. There are some obvious tracks everyone follows, because it’s the cheapest way from A to B (e.g. cape of good hope to straight of malacca).
4) why Singapore got to be such an important global hub.
5) why the houthis and the Somali pirates could cause such havoc
6) nobody goes in the southern ocean! (Why would they? Unless you’re bringing supplies to Antarctica…) a few ships drop down to go around Cape Horn but that’s it.
and so much more. I wish it included more up-to-date data…
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#10This is pretty amazing to watch! I did just watch a dot go through the Great Lakes, to Chicago, then take to the air and make a bee line straight to the Gulf of Mexico. Probably some weird artifact but made me chuckle.
kind of neat, but major problems with accuracy. I'm watching a signficant volume of traffic navigating the mountain ranges of northern BC, the Yukon and Alaska. I think something is messed with the browser rendering based on zoome level, and the map interactions.