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mapsterman commented on Mapping 20k ships that sank during WW II storymaps.arcgis.com/stor... · Posted by u/ohjeez

Thank you for doing this, the wreck map is amazing and humbling. This map makes it easier to follow some historic naval battles; things like being able to locate where the Atlanta went down, so close to the runway on Guadalcanal that was the focus of so much fighting.

mapsterman · a year ago

Thanks!

mapsterman commented on Mapping 20k ships that sank during WW II storymaps.arcgis.com/stor... · Posted by u/ohjeez

mkapoor26 · a year ago

Interesting thing is he spent eight years creating a comprehensive dataset of over 14,500 mapped records of sunken ships...why??

mapsterman · a year ago

Going on 12 years now. If I had known it would have taken so long before I started I might not have taken this on. It’s been a lot of work on my own time but it’s something I enjoy. Why did I start? I thought it would be cool to see it all mapped and see the patterns that result, including the temporal ones. And I think I was right - it is cool. Also, aside from this forum there’s been a huge interest in from folks involved with cleaning up potentially polluting wrecks and underwater cultural sites. Glad people are enjoying it and finding it worthwhile.

mapsterman commented on Mapping 20k ships that sank during WW II storymaps.arcgis.com/stor... · Posted by u/ohjeez

JoeAltmaier · a year ago

My uncle was on a small gunboat in the pacific, which was sunken by a single Japanese plane. They were on extended patrol, supposed to be observing and reporting from concealment.

But bored sailors will do anything, and what they did was fire upon a small plane (missing it). Which turned and strafed them, sinking their little boat and leaving my uncle with shrapnel in his butt for the rest of his life.

His tiny experience in a vast planet-wide panorama of violence. This mapping project is a heroic undertaking! My hat is off to the people involved.

mapsterman · a year ago

Thanks for the shout-out!

mapsterman commented on Sunken Ships of the Second World War arcgis.com/apps/dashboard... · Posted by u/alakra

snake_plissken · a year ago

This is really cool, nice work!

I knew U-boats operated off the Eastern US coast but I did not know they operated so much in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.

Tangential, I've been watching this documentary series called Battlefield (highly recommended) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21qqkC1cWvE and they mention later versions of U-boats had a 12,000+ mile range. So the Gulf of Mexico is within range especially if they sortied from France.

mapsterman · a year ago

Thanks!

mapsterman commented on Sunken Ships of the Second World War arcgis.com/apps/dashboard... · Posted by u/alakra

vkou · a year ago

Excellent visualization!

It would be amazing if the timeline could be filtered - to compare the rate and number of sinkings in each area year over year.

mapsterman · a year ago

Hey there. Thanks for the compliment. By clicking on the chart at the bottom of the dashboard you can select multiple months.

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