#World port map code#
#World port map free#

UCL EI took data showing location and speed of ships and cross-checked it with another database to get the vessel characteristics, such as engine type and hull measurements. Music: Bach Goldberg Variations played by Kimiko Ishizaka How was the map created? Website: Duncan Clark & Robin Houston from Kilnĭata: Julia Schaumeier & Tristan Smith from the UCL EI The map was created by Kiln based on data from the UCL Energy Institute (UCL EI) Unfortunately the data we are using for the map is incomplete for the first few months of the year: roughly January to April. Why are there fewer ships visible in the first part of the year?

We may develop the map to remove this effect in the future. Generally, though, this effect is an artefact of animating a ship between two recorded positions with missing data between, especially when the positions are separated by a narrow strip of land. In some cases this is because there are ships navigating via canals or rivers that aren’t visible on the map. Why do ships sometimes appear to move across land? liquified natural gas): capacity for gases, measured in cubic metres coal, aggregates): combined weight of cargo, fuel, water, provisions, passengers and crew a vessel can carry, measured in thousand tonnes manufactured goods): number of container slots equivalent to 20 feet (i.e. The merchant fleet is divided into five categories, each of which has a filter and a CO 2 and freight counter for the hour shown on the clock. There are also controls for filtering and colouring by vessel type. The controls at the top right let you show and hide different map layers: port names, the background map, routes (a plot of all recorded vessel positions), and the animated ships view. You can pan and zoom in the usual ways, and skip back and forward in time using the timeline at the bottom of the screen. You can also see a few statistics such as a counter for emitted CO 2 (in thousand tonnes) and maximum freight carried by represented vessels (varying units). You can see movements of the global merchant fleet over the course of 2012, overlaid on a bathymetric map.

#World port map free#

Feel free to change the height and/or give it a fixed width if you prefer.

#World port map code#

Use the following embed code for a fully responsive embed that will adjust to the width of your website. Please include a link back to Kiln somewhere in the text of your article. Contact for pricing and further information. There are two versions available: coloured by ship type over the inky-blue base map or just the ship in a single colour a transparent background so you can overlay or print onto whatever background colour you like. Due to popular demand the designers of this map, Kiln, are now selling stunning high-resolution versions of the world “routes” view.