The guys over at Sapping Attention have created an awesome video illustrating how colonialism changed shipping over the course of a 100 years. “It shows about 100 years of ship paths in the seas, as recorded in hundreds of ship’s log books, by hand, one or several times a day. I haven’t watched the whole thing at once, but skipping around gives a pretty good idea of the state of the database (if not world shipping) at any given moment.”
Click the pic to see read more and see the video in action.