Oldies But Goodies

From time to time, I'll rediscover these shipping maps from last year and sigh a little.  There are a few posts about this humongo data (a day in the life of global shipping traffic) so I thought it would be handy to combine their links into a single post -mostly for my benefit, but I hope you enjoy it as well!

Here's the heatmapped shipping data draped over a masked out road/aerial basemap (full collection of maps here).  I think the transitions of silver cartographic seas blending into the blackness of the aerial images looks sort of metallic, for whatever it's worth...

Here it is with a Boolean mapping theme to show relative proportions of traffic based on shipment type, either goods or oil (full collection of maps here)...

And, finally, a weighting and extrapolation method used in the cartography to coax out the linearity of the network (background info here)...

Oh, and an over the top chalkboard illustration using this data with insets of some interesting bits...

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