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Friday, June 25, 2021

Sailing The 7 Seas


The Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850 is extracting meteorological information from historical transportation logbooks. These historical records comprise a wealth of information both close the routes taken past times ships in addition to the atmospheric condition conditions encountered past times the ships during their voyages.

Morgan Herlocker has taken the place information from these 100 years of transportation logs in addition to plotted them on a Mapbox map. The thousands of information points inward Ships Logs induce got been processed into vector tilesets using tippecanoe.

One affair that clearly emerges from all this information is the routes of the major transportation lanes from 1750-1850.