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Ships Before Steam
Real ships' logbooks from 1750 to 1850 drawn as voyage lines: the trade winds, the volta do mar, the Brouwer route and how long voyages took.
This is an interactive data study by Dr Tristan Hotham, built from open data. The map runs in your browser: explore it, search for places and switch layers. The write-up explains the method and what the data shows, and the data and code are open for anyone to reuse.
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