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besilarius

March 01, 2013, 07:07:43 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/oct/01/first-world-war-royal-navy-ships-mapped

Cannot get this to load on my system, but this is supposed to be an animated view of all Royal Navy ships during World War I.
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March 01, 2013, 07:29:29 PM
It worked on my system. It's cool to see how much RN activity there was along the Atlantic routes. It looks like there was a surprising amount of military traffic to and from Capetown, SA.
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TheCommandTent

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March 01, 2013, 09:41:20 PM
That is a really cool site.
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March 02, 2013, 11:36:11 AM
Cool site, thanks.  I couldn't get it to run in IE10, but it ran OK in Chrome...
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March 08, 2013, 09:02:12 PM
Thanks Bes!
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