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Ever Given Everywhere
- fennecfoxen 6y agoBeing in New York, I tried to get her stuck in the poor Erie Canal, but alas! she's too wide to fit in the first place!
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoI tried it putting it in my backyard... that puts things into perspective for sure.
- runarberg 6y agoI did the same in the Ballard Locks in Seattle. It takes all the space from the railway bridge to the other east end of the locks. I guess we won’t be seeing this ship in Lake Washington unless they embiggen the locks.
- eastbayjake 6y agoHadn't quite internalized that this thing is a Midtown NYC block wide and 5 blocks (1.5 avenues in Hells Kitchen) long
- ch4s3 6y agoI does look like you could just squeeze it into the Prospect Park lake. Olmstead truly thought of everything.
- zimpenfish 6y agoLooks like it can only start to get stuck in the Thames somewhere between the Thames Barrier and the dome (but the Thames Barrier doesn't look wide enough to let it through in the first place.)
- graderjs 6y agohttps://twitter.com/en_dash/status/1376172427097559044 https://twitter.com/en_dash/status/1376172427097559044 If he really created in "10 minutes" that's pretty impressive for Glitch and for his GIS knowledge
- 867-5309 6y agocreation time = programming time × 0.01
- darkstar999 6y agoHe has subsequent tweets where he added features, so I don't think we're seeing the "10 minutes" of effort.
- ric2b 6y agoAnd here I am, had to spend like 4h just to get curl to work properly in a docker container (with the right path, env vars, logging to stdout and schedule controllable from a docker-compose file's env vars). It sure would be nice if the docker daemon supported scheduled starts instead of this mess.
- junon 6y agoThis is hilarious. Bravo.
- ehsankia 6y agoThis makes me realize how hard it is to navigate a map without labels and borders... Would be nice to have a search feature to navigate to a specific location.
- bombcar 6y agoI agree - I thought cities would be noticeable but it took me a good five minutes to find the large one near where I live. Great tool for getting an idea how big this thing is.
- wyre 6y ago>Great tool for getting an idea how big this thing is. For me, it puts it into perspective how narrow the Suez canal is. Yes, Evergiven is a large boat, almost as large as my local mall, but when rotated at an angle is only 2-3 of my small neighborhood blocks wide.
- Aperocky 6y agoAt first I was like this must be Tokyo! Zoomed out and found out I was in Boston.
- tyingq 6y agoNot the world's best UI, but you can open up a js console and type: map.setView({lat: 19.7417, lng: -155.844}); And you'll be over Hawaii. map.getCenter() to see current location.
- jtolmar 6y agoIt's kind of a fun skill to learn. Zoom all the way out, find the continent, and focus on water features while zooming into where you want to be. Though the only place I've found the skill useful (besides right now) was, ironically enough, working on Google Maps.
- zimpenfish 6y agoAlso handy when playing GeoGuessr since, obviously, the little map you're putting a pin in has no search box.
- marcosdumay 6y agoFirst thing I tries was to place the boat at the river port of Manaus, near the Amazonas river. So I zoomed into the river, and when I put the boat into scale, it disappeared... So I decided to reduce the river. The boat certainly can not cross the Nile while perpendicular to it, and will need to be really careful about sandbanks on the Yellow river.
- MontagFTB 6y agoThere’s a container ship of similar size near the old Alameda NAS. The scale checks out. A fun site to play around on- thanks!
- evergiven 6y agoIf Ever Given stays stuck any longer I think it will become expression: ''Stuck like Ever Given''.
- allenu 6y agoThis is great. It reminds me of the old web when people would do silly things like this purely for fun and not as a way to promote something.
- savanaly 6y agoI think the amount of people doing silly things like this has certainly gone down in relative terms, but probably gone up in absolute terms (think of the statistics about how many people gain access to the internet for the first time every day-- they can't all deny their human impulse to make silly things!).
- echelon 6y agoI think it's gone down in relative and absolute terms. Websites like NewGrounds flourished pre-platform Internet. Flash was an innovation engine and kids were making tons of content - animations, games, music videos. (Maybe this has moved to Roblox? One can at least hope it lives on somewhere.) In that era, lots of people had homepages. These weren't lazy - most had really great CSS or unique and novel gimmicks, and they almost all had links to projects and libraries and fun experiments. And blogs. Lots of blogs. Once the platforms arrived, the desire to curate a fun personal website dropped. The enjoyment of engineering got sucked out - it's now just a job, the mega monopolies get all the profit from our labor, and there just isn't the same audience for this type of content anymore. Facebook and Google killed the old Internet. Maybe this isn't bad, but it's certainly not the same.
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- hpen 6y agoNeeds a search so I can place it by my house
- ExcavateGrandMa 6y agoAm glad it doesn't work here... I would have lost my time...
- dukeofdoom 6y agoIts a funny shape. Like Biden's nose. But you could also easily reuse this code for a game of "Where's Noah's Ark?", just change the shape of the ship. This makes me think, if aliens came to attack us. They could so easily block the World's supply lines in two strikes.
- tehjoker 6y agoIt looks like the ship is somewhat unstuck! istheshipstillstuck.com/
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- Ploskin 6y agoHad to laugh when I saw the comments saying to put it back.
- mckirk 6y agoDamnit, I wasn't ready yet! Is it too late to register the 'stuck Evergiven' as my emotional support ship and have them put it back?
- jaynetics 6y agoi initially misread this comment as "register the 'stuck Evergiven' as an emoji". i like that thought. it would probably need to stay in place for half a decade for the unicode consortium to approve it, though.
- fishywang 6y agoThis is awesome! After played it around somewhere I'm familiar with, I realized that although it's huge, it's not as huge as I imagined it to be. (How accurate is that "Boat is to scale" checkbox?)
- cbhl 6y agoIf anything, I think I'm now surprised by how narrow the Suez Canal is! I thought the Panama Canal was small, but apparently the Suez Canal is something like 6-7x narrower at the bottom.
- eCa 6y agoPanama is limited by its locks while Suez is at sea level. Ever given is almost twice the tonnage of New Panamax.
- alisonatwork 6y agoI tried bringing it into some ports like Busan (South Korea), Kaohsiung (Taiwan) and Rotterdam (Netherlands) and it seems like it might be a tad large, but pretty close. It's also fun to roll it up to next to any intermodal rail terminals you know of to see all the containers next to one another.
- jdeibele 6y agoI thought it was pretty accurate - I put it on 55th Avenue here in Portland and it went past 60th Avenue. Blocks are 200 feet long, streets are about 30 feet. Total seems close to the 1312 feet that Wikipedia says the Ever Given is.
- Moru 6y agoI compared it to official maps in Sweden and it seems quite close to 400 meter long .
- Laremere 6y agoThis unintentionally taught me something cool: Placing the Ever Given on my street gave a surprisingly intuitive sense of scale. This seems way better than I could get from numbers. Perhaps there's significant value in using a map overlay with spaces you are most familiar when showing scale; As opposed to using standard measurements, or units like football fields.
- saagarjha 6y agoIt did that too, then shifted it over a bit to find that it’s almost the same diameter as Apple Park. Gives insight into why people often bring bikes aboard massive ships like these!
- mikewarot 6y agoI put it in the local Target parking lot, it crushed the Wendy's, a strip mall and a few houses a street over. Of course, the containers on that ship, could make a 20 mile/30km long train if they were double stacked.
- xmprt 6y agoI've read that the number of containers stalled because of this would be equivalent to a traffic jam from Chicago to El Paso
- Someone 6y agoFully loaded, it’s about twice that. It carries up to 20,124 TEU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit) according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_Given, so that’s 402,480 feet. That’s 122.676 km. Double-stack and you get a wall of over 60km. And that doesn’t include space between containers. A train would be 70-ish km long.
- throwaway2037 6y agoNice calculation. Financial Times here (https://www.ft.com/content/3dc797d0-7268-49a4-b0b5-3d11479cbe7f https://www.ft.com/content/3dc797d0-7268-49a4-b0b5-3d11479cb...) claims "90 miles if they were loaded on a single-decked train", which Google tells me is about 144.8 kilometers!
- sllabres 6y agoAs it seems, the web page is a little to late and the ever given is free :)
- throwaway189262 6y agoI love that if you keep making it bigger it takes over the entire page
- nixass 6y agoI am still amazed with the amount of cargo containers such ship can carry. If I read it right the "Given" carries ~18500 containers, mind boggling.
- laurent92 6y agoI makes me realize how much we live in a eco-catastrophy: - Every few days, such a ship lands in Europe and all 122km of goods are dispatched to everyone’s houses (122km is the length of its containers), half of it probably being styrofoam, - 10-20 years later, all this gear lands in landfills. And we keep piling them up. Transferring so much mass for a century from Australia (ore) to China (transformation) to Europe can’t possibly not change the Earth’s rotation axis, let alone raise the average level if land in Europe ;) The logistics of 500 million humans are truly staggering. Ecologists want us to save 40% carbon emissions, but that can’t possibly be enough. It feels like we should be 10% as many as we are, plus save 40% ecological footprint per person...
- tyingq 6y agoThe figures are given in TEU's which is equivalent to a 20 foot container. Most of the containers are 40 feet, so the number is half that. Still impressive. Also, above deck appears to be stacked roughly 10 high, 24 wide, and 28 bow to stern, with some areas not filled in, so about ~6000 on top and ~3200 below deck.
- hiisukun 6y agoFor the Aussies out there, this will set your map to Sydney Harbour Bridge, and if you rotate the Ever Given you'll see it's a very handy fit. map.setView({lat: -33.85248, lng: -208.78863});
- fogihujy 6y agoThat thing looks insanely big when placed in my back yard.
- fctorial 6y agoThat thing fits in your backyard?
- tathisit 6y agoHe parked that big mac truck right in his little garage.
- fctorial 6y agoBro!
- saalweachter 6y agoIt's "only" 2 furlongs long, so you only need around a 4 square furlong property before you can easily fit it. In a semi-rural location, where you have roads that were last built out when everything was still fields, it's not uncommon to have lots divided for houses that are long, but not wide. Spending a few minutes looking at the parcels near me, I found one that was 390m long and 50m wide -- slightly too small, but not by that much, not not even a particularly large lot as these things go.
- fogihujy 6y agoWell, on the field behind it anyway. And it's more of a yard than a backyard. Language differences and all that.
- cheeaun 6y agoWondering if there's a 3D model of the ship
- bellyfullofbac 6y agoAn AR version would've been cute. I can "place it" on my desk and tell my boss "Sorry something's blocking me from work..."
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoNeat, but it should default to showing the ship to scale.
- georgeam 6y agoNice idea and execution! Just one small suggestion. Could you consider increasing the height of the map? Even if it means putting the top white-background banner as a vertical column on the left edge. I was trying to find a location which required navigating due north, and one has to make very many short swipes because of the limited height of the map. Compared to when you're navigating East-west, in which case you can make wide sweeping swipes. Also it would allow you to see more context for any given location. Thanks. Nice work!
- rambojazz 6y agoAny working mirror somewhere?