Every Ship Sunk in WWII / / No Comments Over the course of the Second World War more than 20,000 ships were sunk around the world. Esri’s Paul Heersink has spent the last ten years scouring historical records to create and map the ‘most comprehensive dataset’ of ships sunk in WWII.Resurfacing the Past is a fascinating story map which not only visualizes where Allied and Axis ships were lost in WWII, it also explores the WWII sunken Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: every, ship, Sunk, WWII
24 Hours of Ship Traffic in the Bay / / No Comments Every day hundreds of container ships, high speed ferries, and pleasure boats navigate the San Francisco Bay. The job of orchestrating much of this marine traffic falls to the Coast Guard’s vessel traffic service, based on Yerba Buena Island. You can get a great idea of what this job entails on Mapbox’s interactive map Ships in the San Francisco Bay.Ships in the San Francisco Bay animates 24 Maps Mania… more → Posted in: Interactive Maps Tagged with: hours, ship, Traffic