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Shipmap.org
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#62Try this one. Real-time global view of all registered ships. You can click on any little triangle or type in a ship's name and see it's location:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-37.3/cent...
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#63Interesting that no ships were recorded going thru the Northwest Passage -- perhaps in 2012 it was still generally impassable? It's getting to a point where freighters / tankers pass thru unassisted by icebreakers during the warm months. Re: the website itself -- the Mercator projection is an artifact of paper maps, and it greatly distorts features near the poles. Could we please use a true globe when rendering inter…
Flat maps have a lot of UX advantages over globes, and you can show the whole world at once.
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#64Where would one get the dataset for this. This would be awesome to build in realtime.
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#65Burning bunker fuel releases a lot of sulfur emissions and comparatively less carbon. SO2 has a strong cooling effect on the climate, both through directly reflecting incoming sunlight and by acting as cloud condensation nuclei. This increases the formation of reflective clouds.
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#66Interesting to see no ships in Hudson Bay, given its importance in early North American history.
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#67This 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 stra…
My favorite: near the Bering strait you can see the distortion of the map - obviously ships go in straight lines on a sphere but in a curve on the map.
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#68This 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 stra…
> 6) nobody goes in the southern ocean! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties “Below 40 degrees south, there is no law; below 50 degrees, there is no God.”
There's currently a 100-ft foiling trimaran in the southern ocean that is racing the clock around the world attempting the around the world record.
They've averaged about 34 mph (30 kn) for 22 days now. Crazy stuff.
https://sodebo-ultim3.sodebo.com/
The red boat on the tracker is the world record track from 2017.
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#69I could swear I just saw a ship travel at high speed in a straight line directly across Britain. Some sort of giant catapult? Lovely site though. Mesmerising.
Exactly. It’s quite impressive to watch from the ground and even more from the coast on landing (but be sure to wear a mack since you will get splashed).
I'm surprised more people don't know about the Northampton Canal
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly. It’s quite impressive to watch from the ground and even more from the coast on landing (but be sure to wear a mack since you will get splashed).
I'm surprised more people don't know about the Northampton Canal
Is that the one that runs in a straight line directly east to west somewhere around the England/Scotland border?