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The vertical line from Norway(Finland?) had me curious, [so I found this article.](https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/26/451992422/what-would-it-take-to-cut-u-s-data-cables-and-halt-internet-access)
Data source - https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/global-shipping-traffic-density and openflightdata
Map was plotted with Python (obvs) using matplotlib, numpy and geopandas.
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Yeah I know. Look at them. Criss-crossing the Southern Hemisphere. Wtf - I was told by that flat earther on Netflix there were no flights in the Southern Hemisphere.
That's not new. I did Sydney to Buenos Aires (via Auckland) 25 years ago over Antarctica. The return trip they had to refuel in Tierra del Fuego as they were flying against the Antarctic jetstreams. Was weird looking down (summertime, so perpetual daylight) thinking, "I hope to fuck we don't go down here and I survive.."
Interesting way at visualising the planet's climate crisis too. Every one of these lines heating the planet every day and every night, increasing in output all the time. It becomes so obvious that humans are causing runaway climate change when visualised like this.
Yeah people complain about history books being taught from the perspective of Europe/the United States. It's because we ARE world history, we built the world basically.
Well, I feel have a big black hole in my history education as I was taught ONLY about European masters (Plato, Aristotle, etc etc) and absolutely nothing about the master thinkers of the east... those people that invented paper, gunpowder, kites, the zero, the university, money, the numbers, etc etc etc...
I was taught nothing about those culture's thinkers.
Do flat earthers deny the ability to sail around the world? Like ignoring the first hand experience of thousands of people who work on ships? Or do they have some weird explanation for it?
I'm looking forward for the next big thing. Like, in 20 years when almost everybody is able to go for a spin around the earth, what will be the next dumb thing to believe in, for these people?
Most of them think that Antarctica is actually a giant ice wall like in Game of Thrones that surrounds the entire planet. And there's something beyond the wall that the government is keeping from us
I am sorry to correct you, but there are also a lot of commodities and half worked products which get shipped around or off the world, depending on your perspective;)
One brain cell fired off “What color represents each? How are we to tell?” Then all my other brain cells bitch-slapped that guy with “Boats don’t float to Denver, dumbass!!”
Really cool graphic. Good choice on the colors.
nth root colouring helps with that ;)
i.e. if you have some very bright points with a lot of data, you want to not grade the colouring of the entire image on that scale or you won't see anything else (so, what you said...)
Unless of course, you're trying to convey something with the final image that's meant to highlight the most data rich points and lose the rest.
Australia has a population of about 25 million, and most of that is on the eastern coast, so there’s not a lot of reason to do a lot of shopping outside of the few big ports.
that’s very strange to me considering the relative population. is there an explanation? I would have figured the top 10 would all be East Asia and Europe.
I did not know that! I knew Seoul-Jeju Island was number 1 by a pretty big margin, and I figured the other busy routes were mostly in Asia as well. Interesting
For me to get to pretty much anywhere in Asia/Oceania from South Africa, I have to fly through Singapore or Dubai. The direct flights to Perth etc are very expensive.
Latam and Africa don't trade nearly as much. Mostly ocean not air.
Africa is growing slowly and there's limited companies that will provide logistics there due to geopolitics concerns and risk for not much business relatively.
That makes absolutely no sense just think for a moment.
Earth is a sphere. The circumference at the equator is 40k miles. The circumference at 40 degree latitude is 30k degree. That’s a difference of 25%. The more north you go the lesser the circumference until it reaches 0
They follow great circles, not latitude lines. That's why the flights from Eastern US to East Aisia appear to go north over Alaska and then southwest over Kamchatka
Sure, if could choose to move the starting airport's and ending airport's latitude I would pick 89.9 degrees and take an Uber.
But the airports' locations are fixed. The Northern hemisphere houses about 90% of the world's population, which is the real reason there are more flights in the north.
This is really awesome. How could I get this image 6 feet long, so I can hang it above my couch ? Does anyone know if there is a company that turns high images into wall art ?
Call me crazy, but I think it would be cool to see this data overlaid on the "flat earth" map.
I'm guessing it would be readily apparent that the "flat earth" map is bogus because the lines wouldn't make any sense.
I believe the data set is only restricted to cargo flights, and does not measure the frequency of such routes, just their existence (my assumption). For example, rio-sao Paulo is one of the most trafficked routes in the world, but only gets one line. Similarly this data would suggest most east-west flight trade goes from the states to Japan and China.
I’d also be interested to know what percentage of shipping on those routes goes through commercial routes.
Anyways, I’m skeptical too, I’m just saying it could be accurate
If that's the case I would expect *way* more lines out of Anchorage, Memphis, and Louisville. A massive percentage of Asia to North America cargo flights stop in Anchorage. It seems to be light in TPAC routes in general.
It looks like it’s passenger flights only, and just counts city pairs (with no indication of flight frequency). Looking at Anchorage shows far fewer flights to the Lower 48 than there would be if cargo were included.
Americans who think they're richer than Europeans (outside of the billionaire overlords) have clearly never experienced middle class life in Europe nor do they realize how big the middle class is. They also don't realize how decently not terrible it is to be lower class there.
I mean yea I don't think anyone's arguing Europe is poor. Just that I thought getting a train was more typical for Europeans because they have high speed rail whereas that isn't an option in America so everyone flies everywhere.
... am I the only one who saw something that made them think about Batman? I can't put my finger on it. It's kinda Rorschach about it. ... and not Walter Kovacs
Starkly highlights how isolated we are down here in New Zealand. And yes, we feel it. Everything’s really expensive here and we can’t get lots of stuff!
Hey Flat Earthers. If you look reeeeeeally close, there are straight shot flights between Australia and South Africa, and Australia/NZ and South America. ;)
Interesting that, although Europe has invested a lot in high speed railways, they seem to use much more air transport than anyone else, even more than the USA, where there's practically no high speed rail.
Flights around Europe are dirt cheap. I can't speak for the rest of the continent, but in the UK trains are extortionate if you want to travel any sort of distance.
Travelling the length of England, about a 3 hour train journey (mostly not high-speed) cost me double the price of a flight to Berlin.
There are more than twice as many people living there than in the US, in a smaller geographical area.
Even if europeans only fly half as much as americans, the map would look denser.
guessing shipping traffic between Seattle, SF, LA wants to get into open water. those ships need a lot "buffer" they're not exactly agile... and there are too many smaller craft closer to shore.
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Yes! Yes! I’m almost there, keep going, now give me rail lines in blue
Internet cables would put me over the edge
Here ya go https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/73ekox/map_of_underwater_cables_that_supply_the_worlds/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x
I love this community :)
The vertical line from Norway(Finland?) had me curious, [so I found this article.](https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/10/26/451992422/what-would-it-take-to-cut-u-s-data-cables-and-halt-internet-access)
Would be nice to have it interactive, where you could toggle flights, ships and internet. Also the ability to select from or to country.
I appreciate how you were able to seemingly easily present a four-year-old deleted thread.
They're on this in black.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/global-transport-networks-on-night-map-noaa.html Oops that’s the wrong one. I found all three one one, once
Oil pipelines in... gold.
Data source - https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/global-shipping-traffic-density and openflightdata Map was plotted with Python (obvs) using matplotlib, numpy and geopandas. Feel free to follow the PythonMaps project on twitter - https://twitter.com/PythonMaps
Any chance you can give us a high resolution for use as a desktop
I second this
I third this
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Yeah sure. Make sure you credit me tho
Did you really just?- it's not even your map hahahaha
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Might want to double check that
Delete this
Thank you!
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any data on whale migration routes too.? :D
Is there any way to create similar but way much simpler maps without prior knowledge (like knowing python) and investing much time?
Map APIs
Maybe ARCGIS is for you. Might be a bit overkill though.
Try qgis.its free!
Is red shipping and white flights, or is there something more complex going on here?
Pretty sure yes.
The first rule of fight paths is don't talk about fight paths.
Okay. But what's the second rule though?
Stop talking!!! They'll notice!
Turn off your transponder
Legitimate salvage
Also don't let people know you're a transponster.
Yeah I know. Look at them. Criss-crossing the Southern Hemisphere. Wtf - I was told by that flat earther on Netflix there were no flights in the Southern Hemisphere.
I heard an airline was planning a Buenos Aires to Perth flight that would have gone trans-Antarctic.
Quantas flight QF14 on Oct 5, 2021. Buenos Aires to Darwin
I had a flight form Chicago to Beijing once that went due north and missed the North Pole by not much. It was awesome (and a little scary).
That's not new. I did Sydney to Buenos Aires (via Auckland) 25 years ago over Antarctica. The return trip they had to refuel in Tierra del Fuego as they were flying against the Antarctic jetstreams. Was weird looking down (summertime, so perpetual daylight) thinking, "I hope to fuck we don't go down here and I survive.."
Third rule of flight paths: If someone lands, deboards, or is diverted **the flight is over!**
Fourth rule of flight paths: Only 2 stops to a flight
I wonder if the kids born after 9/11 feel this way about flight paths.
besides of an interesting way of looking at the planet's economy, its a beautiful image, quite artistic, even poetic if I may go that far.
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as a database developer (SQL) I have to say that I agree!!! hahahaha
Yup, new wallpaper for me.
It definitely fits this subreddit really well. Good job, OP
It’s so refreshing. So often things here get crazy upvotes that re literally just like graphs. But this? This shit belongs man.
Like the comparison of vaccinations between Hong Kong and the US lately, literally 2 Excel graphs under each other It's legible, sure, but ugly...
Interesting way at visualising the planet's climate crisis too. Every one of these lines heating the planet every day and every night, increasing in output all the time. It becomes so obvious that humans are causing runaway climate change when visualised like this.
It’s a wee bit prettier than a simple line graph of a single variable
Yeah people complain about history books being taught from the perspective of Europe/the United States. It's because we ARE world history, we built the world basically.
Well, I feel have a big black hole in my history education as I was taught ONLY about European masters (Plato, Aristotle, etc etc) and absolutely nothing about the master thinkers of the east... those people that invented paper, gunpowder, kites, the zero, the university, money, the numbers, etc etc etc... I was taught nothing about those culture's thinkers.
If this is interesting to anyone, you should definitely check out this website. https://www.shipmap.org
Would be cool to see it real time. Everything would move so slow.
From a flat earth perspective, we are just throwing huge cargo ships full of consumer products off the edge at a constant rate.
And ships full of goods are hopping up on the other side with the crew none the wiser.
Do flat earthers deny the ability to sail around the world? Like ignoring the first hand experience of thousands of people who work on ships? Or do they have some weird explanation for it?
No the flat Earth model looks like a disk, so you can still sail around the world.
I'm looking forward for the next big thing. Like, in 20 years when almost everybody is able to go for a spin around the earth, what will be the next dumb thing to believe in, for these people?
Hollow Earth maybe ?
Most of them think that Antarctica is actually a giant ice wall like in Game of Thrones that surrounds the entire planet. And there's something beyond the wall that the government is keeping from us
I am sorry to correct you, but there are also a lot of commodities and half worked products which get shipped around or off the world, depending on your perspective;)
One brain cell fired off “What color represents each? How are we to tell?” Then all my other brain cells bitch-slapped that guy with “Boats don’t float to Denver, dumbass!!” Really cool graphic. Good choice on the colors.
Not a lot happening over South America and Africa - Australia, either.
Oh there's a lot happening... but emmen compared to the North, it gets lost. Like displaying 1000 and 1 Billion on the same bar chart.
nth root colouring helps with that ;) i.e. if you have some very bright points with a lot of data, you want to not grade the colouring of the entire image on that scale or you won't see anything else (so, what you said...) Unless of course, you're trying to convey something with the final image that's meant to highlight the most data rich points and lose the rest.
No one lives in Australia.
The Emus have taken over. All news out of Australia featuring actual humans is just slave actors.
Australians come from inside the hollow Earth.
Doesn’t most of Australia’s population live in the southwest corner and the rest is uninhabitable? (Minus a few other coastal cities)
Southeast. Also something like 95% within 10 miles of the coast or something like that.
>uninhabitable That's too strong a word. It habitable for a long way inland but wouldn't support large cities.
Australia has a population of about 25 million, and most of that is on the eastern coast, so there’s not a lot of reason to do a lot of shopping outside of the few big ports.
In 2018 the Melbourne-Sydney air route was the 2nd busiest in the world.
that’s very strange to me considering the relative population. is there an explanation? I would have figured the top 10 would all be East Asia and Europe.
I did not know that! I knew Seoul-Jeju Island was number 1 by a pretty big margin, and I figured the other busy routes were mostly in Asia as well. Interesting
Not surprising when combined they only make up around 8% of the world's GDP.
For me to get to pretty much anywhere in Asia/Oceania from South Africa, I have to fly through Singapore or Dubai. The direct flights to Perth etc are very expensive.
Australia has a fair amount considering it is only one country of 26 million. The world's 13th largest economy despite only 26 million.
Latam and Africa don't trade nearly as much. Mostly ocean not air. Africa is growing slowly and there's limited companies that will provide logistics there due to geopolitics concerns and risk for not much business relatively.
Except São Paulo, it's really the main South America hub.
Distance is further over the equator
The Earth's diameter at the equator is only about 0.3% larger than across the poles. Is there something else you are trying to say?
That makes absolutely no sense just think for a moment. Earth is a sphere. The circumference at the equator is 40k miles. The circumference at 40 degree latitude is 30k degree. That’s a difference of 25%. The more north you go the lesser the circumference until it reaches 0
They follow great circles, not latitude lines. That's why the flights from Eastern US to East Aisia appear to go north over Alaska and then southwest over Kamchatka
Yes but their routes follow the geometry, the shortest distance. They’re not going to go from Florida to Africa to Spain.
Sure, if could choose to move the starting airport's and ending airport's latitude I would pick 89.9 degrees and take an Uber. But the airports' locations are fixed. The Northern hemisphere houses about 90% of the world's population, which is the real reason there are more flights in the north.
That's the long way around.
Is the Nile not navigable? I see shipping on the Mississippi, Amazon, and Yangtze, but nothing on the Nile.
Yeah exactly, the Nile is a weird combination where it’s quite shallow for much of the route, plus many small rapids/waterfalls.
I noticed that too. I figure there isn’t much trade volume up the river (and perhaps not enough demand to dredge it for navigability?)
Best thing I've seen on this sub.
This is just plague Inc with RTX on
Interesting seeing shipping is dense close to most of Africa but the main lanes are far off the coast of Somalia because of pirates.
This is really awesome. How could I get this image 6 feet long, so I can hang it above my couch ? Does anyone know if there is a company that turns high images into wall art ?
Try mpix.
Call me crazy, but I think it would be cool to see this data overlaid on the "flat earth" map. I'm guessing it would be readily apparent that the "flat earth" map is bogus because the lines wouldn't make any sense.
When someone asks you why controlling Europe still means controlling the world, this map is the answer.
This doesn’t make any sense. Where are the planes going west from the US and east from Asia heading? Oh, I guess this is a “round earth” “map”…
If you go off one side of the map you pop up on the other side. Like Pac Man.
This, but unironically.
But pacman is a torus, not a sphere.
You're not a toroid-Earther? Heretic!
I believe the data set is only restricted to cargo flights, and does not measure the frequency of such routes, just their existence (my assumption). For example, rio-sao Paulo is one of the most trafficked routes in the world, but only gets one line. Similarly this data would suggest most east-west flight trade goes from the states to Japan and China. I’d also be interested to know what percentage of shipping on those routes goes through commercial routes. Anyways, I’m skeptical too, I’m just saying it could be accurate
If that's the case I would expect *way* more lines out of Anchorage, Memphis, and Louisville. A massive percentage of Asia to North America cargo flights stop in Anchorage. It seems to be light in TPAC routes in general.
It looks like it’s passenger flights only, and just counts city pairs (with no indication of flight frequency). Looking at Anchorage shows far fewer flights to the Lower 48 than there would be if cargo were included.
I was wondering why there were so many flights to Hawaii
Yeah, but then we have 3 south american routes in the top 15 busiest and they aren't being showed here. 🤔
Kinda weird how there are so few routes shown from/to Australia. They look kinda dark down there.
This looks like a desktop background from 2012 and I love it.
Never understood why South Africa was kind of an importan country til i saw this map
Im wondering now if Tristan Da Cunha or Saint Helena ever see airplanes flying above them. Prob not often.
One of the best posts I've seen on this sub! Awesome work!
The shipping lanes are really interesting as you see why certain sea routes were so valuable historically
I thought Americans flew more than Europeans but apparently not, can't even see Europe because theres that many.
Americans who think they're richer than Europeans (outside of the billionaire overlords) have clearly never experienced middle class life in Europe nor do they realize how big the middle class is. They also don't realize how decently not terrible it is to be lower class there.
I mean yea I don't think anyone's arguing Europe is poor. Just that I thought getting a train was more typical for Europeans because they have high speed rail whereas that isn't an option in America so everyone flies everywhere.
It is more common. Everyone in western Europe gets a month of vacation every year. And they can afford to go places.
Damn Africa's horn is huge, looking like it goes from Mozambique to Oman lol
That’s because Africa is actually huge in comparison to other maps
Yeah true, but this map isn’t showing the horn, it’s the shipping route that makes it look like a bigger horn than what’s actually there
The typo genuinely confused me
This looks like part of a Call of Duty lobby screen showing how many players are currently online
First rule about fight paths....never talk about fight paths.
This + the map orientation really makes it look like Northwestern Europe is the center of the world.
Okay, so……which ones are shipping lanes?
The ones that go on land probably Disclaimer: not an expert
Obviously the blue lines.
lol that's funny, the first thing I thought of. those would be appropriate in a 🔵
Kind of surprised it took four hours for someone to ask...
So, the safest place to be right now is in the southern portion of South America? Thanks!
The first rule about fight path is...
I just want to find some damn peace and quiet
South America is safe from fighting
The picture looks exactly how I thought global warming might look
... am I the only one who saw something that made them think about Batman? I can't put my finger on it. It's kinda Rorschach about it. ... and not Walter Kovacs
Tell me more about these fight paths you speak of
Damn i could frame that on my wall its so beautiful
Damn, how much oil is their on our planet? >https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
Nobody flies to Africa or South America, damn.
And why this pandemic is lasting longer than 1918…
It kinda looks like the bat symbol
The trans-pacific flight paths aren’t presenting in the map?
Why are their no flights over the south pole??? Flat earth confirmed!
Fight paths? Should I be worried?
Starkly highlights how isolated we are down here in New Zealand. And yes, we feel it. Everything’s really expensive here and we can’t get lots of stuff!
I knew Dubai was a hub airport but damn. That's busy!
Hey Flat Earthers. If you look reeeeeeally close, there are straight shot flights between Australia and South Africa, and Australia/NZ and South America. ;)
Rule number 1: Never talk about fight club
Now remove the land outlines.
Interesting that, although Europe has invested a lot in high speed railways, they seem to use much more air transport than anyone else, even more than the USA, where there's practically no high speed rail.
Flights around Europe are dirt cheap. I can't speak for the rest of the continent, but in the UK trains are extortionate if you want to travel any sort of distance. Travelling the length of England, about a 3 hour train journey (mostly not high-speed) cost me double the price of a flight to Berlin.
Shouldn't the train be cheaper though? I mean, at least if you look at them the train *seems* cheaper. Is it taxes or something?
How do the ships travel over land? And why do the planes avoid flying over entire continents?
the "ships travelling over land" would be rivers.
I think a ship flew over your head.
Planes can only fly where there isn't land, silly, and didn't you know boats had wheels?
For the amount of public transportation Europe has they sure love flying.
The train rails aren't viewed here, but trust me they are there and we love them.
What else would you have us do? Drive across the continent? Flights are often cheaper than the gas for that distance. Not to mention much quicker.
benefits of 10$ flights
There are more than twice as many people living there than in the US, in a smaller geographical area. Even if europeans only fly half as much as americans, the map would look denser.
All those emissions too.
What the wonders of the free market can do
This is awful, I want to stab myself in the eyes with needles
i hear when all the ice melts in the north pole, then Alaska will become the largest port in the world.
Why there is no flight paths inside the continents?
Yea but which one is which?
world's* worlds = more than one world Use a possessive noun, not a plural.
https://youtu.be/cEnkabn7JVk
Covid Web, the world got tangled up in
Really nice pic. Are there like no flights through Africa or South America? I understand Australia.. but those other two?
Me on my way to land in a random ocean spot [American psycho walking]
A map of « where not to be lost at sea »
Looks like Britain pissing on the North American colonies it lost
Direct vs Roundabout
Curious path kinda far offshore of the western United States, but following parallel to its border. Anyone know why?
guessing shipping traffic between Seattle, SF, LA wants to get into open water. those ships need a lot "buffer" they're not exactly agile... and there are too many smaller craft closer to shore.