Shipmap.org | Hacker News

kept by eddie jan 18

An interactive map visualizes global merchant fleet movements in 2012, revealing shipping lanes, oil flows, and seasonal patterns.

Inside the Room Where War Insurance Is Bought and Sold
Lloyd's of London, a 300-year-old marine insurance market, remains the central hub where war insurance for ships stranded in the Persian Gulf is negotiated and sold.
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OpenTrafficMap | Hacker News
OpenTrafficMap visualizes real-time traffic data using open-source tools and publicly available sensor feeds.
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Six years perfecting maps on watchOS
Pedometer++ 8 ships a custom SwiftUI map engine for watchOS that renders cartridge-designed tiles, after six years of iterative design to prioritize offline navigation over dynamic rendering.
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A developer built an ASCII renderer that uses shape vectors and contrast enhancement to achieve sharp edges, overcoming blurriness from treating characters as pixels.
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GitHub - perspective-dev/perspective: A data visualization and analytics component, especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets.
Perspective is an interactive analytics and data visualization component for large and streaming datasets, built with WebAssembly, Python, and Rust.
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