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In modern shipping is this used or do ships just follow the shortest distance between points? Perhaps GPS has made that simple?
by pedrocr 6y ago
In modern shipping is this used or do ships just follow the shortest distance between points? Perhaps GPS has made that simple?
- tgb 6y agoEven back "in the day" the routes weren't actually following those lines. Here's a neat animation of the routes many ships took (from their logbooks) starting in the 1750's: http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/04/visualizing-ocean-shipping.html http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/04/visualizing-oce...