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If you click to about the middle of May and wait a few seconds, you get a ship flying across the middle of Africa. I wonder what happened there :)
by jstanley 6y ago
If you click to about the middle of May and wait a few seconds, you get a ship flying across the middle of Africa. I wonder what happened there :)
- nerdponx 6y agoThere's one flying over Saudi Arabia in August, too.
- dotancohen 6y agoThat's a carpet.
- argvargc 6y agoSaw that too, and across Europe in December. Found the answer in the sites FAQ: > Why do ships sometimes appear to move across land? > In some cases this is because there are ships navigating via canals or rivers that aren’t visible on the map. 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. We may develop the map to remove this effect in the future.