In The Historic Menstruation Of Wooden Ships

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 around the world.

One of the maps featured inward National Geographic's superlative 15 maps is Wooden Ships, an interactive map which allows y'all 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 card y'all tin persuasion a mapped visualization of the marine journeys undertaken past times British, Dutch, French or Castilian ships. You tin purpose the time-line at the bottom of the map to select whatever attain of years from 1750 to 1850. The map also allows y'all to filter the information past times current of air speed patterns as well as past times other atmospheric condition as well as climatic conditions. If y'all click on a hexbin on the map y'all tin also read entries from the send logbooks yourself.


Morgan Herlocker has also used the Climatological Database for the World's Oceans to exercise an interactive map of international send traffic betwixt 1750 as well as 1850. These historical send logbooks incorporate a wealth of information both nigh the routes taken past times ships as well as the atmospheric condition conditions encountered past times 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 inward 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.