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Plan your next big hike with this map of America's most-loved long trails. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks 
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"Ships carry 11 billion tons of goods each year. This interactive map shows where they all go. About 11 billion tons of stuff gets carried around the world every year by large ships. Clothes, flat-screen TVs, grain, cars, oil — transporting these goods from port to port is what makes the global economy go 'round. And now there's a great way to visualize this entire process, through this stunning interactive map from the UCL Energy Institute."
Caitlyn Scott's curator insight,
June 14, 2016 10:25 PM
This resource shows great detail into where are products travel when they are imported but also shows us what and where Australian products are going. Good source in regards to showing how large Australia's export market is. Article contains a good amount of information as to why the routes shown on the map are taken as well as having in-depth data showing the different cargo on board ships. This data helps high light what different countries are renowned for in their exports as well as giving so information into why some countries are poorer than others when analysing their exports. Planned use within unit regarding the cost of Australian exports and its sustainability for the future.
James Piccolino's curator insight,
January 18, 2018 7:35 PM
This is incredibly interesting. I am a History guy, I love the subject and I love finding things I did not know about it. This fun interactive map did not so much contribute to direct knowledge of shipping/trade history as much as it has sparked my interest in it. There are old trade routes, who traveled down them and with what, and the ways those trade routes changed civilization and even sometimes started new ones. I never expected to say the words "Wow trade routes are fun!" but here I am. By the way, if you turn on absolutely everything at once, it creates this beautiful image. It is almost oddly relaxing. Sort of in the way some paintings can be.
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As stated in this NPR article: "The video shows satellite tracking of routes superimposed over Google Earth. It focuses on some of the main choke points for international shipping, such as the Strait of Malacca on the southern tip of Malaysia, Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar and Panama Canal. It's a good reminder that about 90 percent of all the goods traded globally spend at least some of their transit time on a ship."
Tags: transportation, globalization, diffusion, industry, economic, mapping, video, visualization. Via Alexandra Piggott
Matt Davidson's curator insight,
February 26, 2015 4:52 AM
A great visual on shipping - Geographies of Interconnections (year 9) 
GTANSW & ACT's curator insight,
October 10, 2015 6:24 PM
An important aspect of global trade links and connections. |
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PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
December 10, 2016 10:30 AM
Another example is the long line of defining the new geography.
Boris Limpopo's curator insight,
December 11, 2016 1:43 AM
Le macroregioni americane con i dati del pendolarismo
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"As the saying goes, 'All roads lead to Rome.' Folks at the moovel lab were curious about how true this statement is, so they tested it out. They laid a grid on top of Europe, and then algorithmically found a route from each cell in the grid to Rome, resulting in about half a million routes total. Yep, there seems to be a way from Rome from every point."
Tags: fluvial, mobility, transportation, mapping. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
Gilbert C FAURE's comment,
January 24, 2016 11:09 AM
a new geography of europe! fascinating for politicians
Gilbert C FAURE's curator insight,
January 24, 2016 11:10 AM
une nouvelle géographie de l'Europe! pour les politiques!! 
Leonardo Wild's curator insight,
January 24, 2016 1:00 PM
But many roads didn't leave Rome ... a small detail that has been lost to history.
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Watch the commuting patterns of New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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