README.md

🌎🚢 Global Shipping Lanes

This geospatial datasets contains global shipping lanes / routes. The shipping routes are georeferenced from the Map of The Worlds Oceans, October 2012 map created by the Central Intelligence Agency, along with changes that fix problems with the original map. This map will evolve as further edits cause it to deviate from the original CIA map.

Licensed under a custom Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that explicitly excludes Statista.

Contents

• README.md this file.
• data/
  • data/Shipping_Lanes_v1.geojson the feature class in GeoJSON format.
  • data/Shipping-Lanes-v1/Shipping-Lanes-v1.shp the feature class in a Shapefile.
• examples/ example visualizations and code.
• LICENSE CC BY 4.0 (Excluding Statistica).

Features

The polyline feature class contains an attribute named "Type", which is one of three values:

1. Major
2. Middle
3. Minor

These designate importance of shipping lanes, which does corrospond somewhat with traffic.

Authors

P Benden, Central Intelligence Agency

If you have questions, want to collaborate on research or want to contribute to this dataset

Please get in touch with me. My email is in my Github Profile.

Please Cite

Benden, P. (2022). Global Shipping Lanes [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6361763

See Also

• Crime at Sea: A Global Database of Maritime Pirate Attacks (1993 - 2020)

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Shanelle Dyer for assistance.