National Geographic has published their round-up of the Best Maps of 2016. The collection includes 15 maps, including vintage, interactive, digital as well as hand-drawn maps from unopen to the world.
One of the maps featured inwards National Geographic's altitude 15 maps is Wooden Ships, an interactive map which allows you lot to explore European maritime action from 1750 to 1850. The visualization is based on digitized transportation logs from the Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850.
Using the map carte du jour you lot tin persuasion a mapped visualization of the marine journeys undertaken yesteryear British, Dutch, French or Castilian ships. You tin role the time-line at the bottom of the map to select whatever attain of years from 1750 to 1850. The map also allows you lot to filter the information yesteryear air current speed patterns as well as yesteryear other weather condition as well as climatic conditions. If you lot click on a hexbin on the map you lot tin also read entries from the send logbooks yourself.
Morgan Herlocker has also used the Climatological Database for the World's Oceans to practice an interactive map of international send traffic betwixt 1750 as well as 1850. These historical send logbooks incorporate a wealth of information both close the routes taken yesteryear ships as well as the weather condition conditions encountered yesteryear the ships during their voyages.
Morgan took the place information from these 100 years of send logs as well as plotted them on a Mapbox map. The thousands of information points inwards Ships Logs were processed into vector tilesets using tippecanoe. One affair that clearly emerges from mapping all this information is the routes of the major transportation lanes from 1750-1850.
